Quotes About Concealment

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.

I'm a simple person who hides a thousand feeling behind the happiest smile.

Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!

I was what they call a 'highly functional addict.' ... sometimes people who need help look nothing like people who need help.

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.

The epitaph that I would write for history would say: I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent.

Time after time, history demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

"Dollhouse" was definitely inspired by the whole Edward Scissorhands vibe where all of the houses are perfect, but inside each home there are very messed up families.

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.

Secrets are lies by another name.

Here it was, the first of many lies he'd have to come up with. "Bella threw a knife at my head." He'd do better with the next lie.

It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.