Quotes About Concealment

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.

And I was glad she had the camera as a fence to protect herself, an excuse to be invisible. Cameras are a lifesaver for the very shy people who have nowhere else to hide.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

I wish I had no history to report. I've pretended for so long that my childhood did not happen. I had to keep it tight, up near the chest. I could not let it out.

A story untold could be the one that kills you

beware the law behind closed doors, the yellow-toothed men behind silver badges who had been betrayed by their chromosomes and their birth. She would talk of power as a yeast that could activate a malevolence that no force on earth could overcome once it had begun. Beware

Do you become in visible?' 'No. I'm there, if you know how to look. I stand between the place you look at and the place you see. Behind what you expect to see. If you expect to see me, you do. I listen in places where no one expects me to be.

rich name for a rich dude. That's all they knew about him, and that's all he wanted them to know. Not even his manager knew who he really was or what he did.

People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, somewhere in the world, and he waits in ambush.

The so-called "right to privacy" of which so much is made in contemporary life is in very large measure merely a way of avoiding scrutiny in our wrongdoing.

That was the birth of religion, a shameful covering to hide our true human nature and pretend that we don't know what we know.

Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

Secrets," Kohler finally said, "are a luxury we can no longer afford.

A reader's desire to guess what I've hidden is always more exciting than anything I can show.

was Hale. He glanced toward Node 3, wondering if the cryptographer were watching. "Fuck it," he grumbled. Below his feet the outline of a recessed trapdoor

A shroud of stubble obscured his jaw.

A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.

The hidden disaster was secrecy, the pretense and magical thinking, the certainty that no one ever needed to know.

If it wasn't thought, it wasn't so. If it wasn't spoken, it hadn't happened. Except that secrets, particularly the most deeply held ones, have a way of leaching into everything surrounding them.

He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.

But it seems that the government had a true account of it, and several counsels 5 were held about ways to prevent its coming over; but all was kept very private.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head.

Don't break my heart just yet, or ask me to lose my reverie on the sticky floor... let me believe I'm the guy they all paid to watch all big and mighty, in the dark where I guess I belong.

I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.