Quotes About Concealment

Everyone seemed to be deliberately not looking at her, the way people did when you had food in your teeth and they didn't want to tell you, so they kept trying not to see.

She reminds herself that everyone has thoughts they wouldn't care to share with the world. Many people have quite perverse thoughts about doing things with animals or fruit, or being spanked by nurses. The difference, of course, is that their thoughts are securely locked away behind bland faces, whereas Sophie's are always in danger of being revealed to all in a sudden flood of colour.

She reminds herself that everyone has thoughts they wouldn't care to share with the world.

Seven minutes. Her mistake could be measured in minutes. Marla was the only person who knew. Ed never knew.

No wonder she felt so ashamed of her shyness, as if it were an embarrassing physical ailment that needed to be hidden at all costs.

They needed to stay secret to keep their power.

She'd always known her reaction to that night had been too big, or perhaps too small. She hadn't ever cried. She hadn't told anyone. She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, therefore it had come to mean everything.

Every man also has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Don't forget to tell everyone it's a secret.

I manage to hide in my movies.

How had I managed to tie my boots? I didn't even remember getting dressed. I was out here in public at the mall. What was I wearing? Jeans. I could feel socks. I had my boots on. I plucked at the edge of my t-shirt and saw it was red. I was wearing Dad's spare Army jacket, and there was a heavy weight in the right pocket that had to be something deadly.

But right on the heels of that feeling, that suspicion that all is not yet lost, comes the urge to tell my mother, tell her that I am okay today, that I have felt something close to happiness, that I might still be capable of feeling happy. She will want to know that. But I can't tell her. That's the wall I always slam into on a good morning like this. My mother will be worrying about me, and I can't tell her that I'm okay.

Adults hid their pain, their fears, their failure, but adolescents hid their happiness, as if to reveal it would risk its loss.

You don't realize how much effort you've put into covering things up until you dig them out.

Man inser inte hur mycket man ansträngt sig för att dölja saker förrän man försöker gräva fram dem [Karaktärens ord]

You don't realize how much effort you've put into covering things up until you try to dig them out.

they kept it all hush-hush

There are no secrets here. Everybody knows everything about everybody. Or they would like to think they do. Secrets have to be well guarded, and the price is high.

Every story has another story inside, but you don't usually get to read the inside one. It's deleted or torn up or maybe filed away before the story becomes a book ...

The moon likes secrets ... and secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.

La ocultación podía ser sinónimo de poder. Como andar por la casa con un revólver cargado.