Quotes About Concealment

But our secrets do not keep us. They worry at us; they wear us away, from the inside out.

He had thought that under their clothes people wore their skin.

History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.

Once the king had grasped what he was being told, he had shouted at the top of his voice that the business should be kept quiet.

It shows how unaccountable men are, what they harbour in their souls: which by no means shows on their faces.

The reason I'm keeping her secret for her, pretending that I don't know she's a girl is because I don't want to lose her. And that's exactly why I can't let her know that I know.

Maska ir ?r?j? paties?ba. Nevis t?p?c, ka atkl?j, kas aiz t?s sl?pjas, bet t?p?c, ka aiz t? nek? nav.

I want to have some reaction. I want to tremble or feel nauseated. I want to be the person who begins to weep. I want to be anyone but the person I am, who looks around to be sure no one saw, who wipes off my knife in the dirt, wipes off my hand on his clothes, and gets out of there before the guards come.

Nobody ever really sees me the way I am, underneath everything. But she did. She does.

Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another. You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you.

People like Aaron act all nice until suddenly they explode and banish some annoying geezer into the void.

I forbid you from speaking aloud about your service to me. I forbid you from putting it into writing or into song. You will never tell anyone of the Roach. You will never tell anyone of any of my spies. You will never reveal their secrets, their meeting places, their safe houses. So long as I live, you will obey this.

Secrets hurt the keeper more than you think.

That was the problem with monsters. Sometimes they looked just like everybody else.

You're no killer. He has no idea what I am.

The job is not to get caught.

They see themselves in you and are blinded.

He takes a step toward me. ¨The other night---¨"I cut him off.¨I did it for the same reason that you did. To get it out of my system.¨ ¨And is it?¨ he asks. ¨Out of you system?¨ I look him in the face and lie. ¨Yes.¨ Page 181

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Well, wife,' he says to me, a chill in his voice. 'It seems you have kept at least one secret from your dowry.

He knew what he was, what depths of depravity and cruelty he had plumbed, what ambitions drove him. He prided himself on knowing those things—but that didn't mean he needed anyone else to see them as well.

I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.

Haz uso de tu poder sin que parezca que lo tienes.

Jude, you keep smiling a pleasant smile in front of Madoc, but all I can see anymore is bared teeth.