Quotes About Concealment

Maybe secrets are only told when you're trying to protect the real truth from coming out.

wanted to live in the dark as a teenager until I realized that ugliness already makes you invisible

Hallie had had plenty of practice over the years at hiding her true feelings and presenting a brave face to the world.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. From Head Over Heels, by Jill Shalvis

She stared at him, doing her best to hold back all the tumbling mass of emotions hitting her at once. Normally she was good at that, really good, but naturally her one really good life skill deserted her, leaving everything she felt all over her face. Annoyance. Embarrassment. And let's not forget the very reluctant lust.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." Chloe Traeger

There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times.

The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

No story that juicy was going to stay secret for long.

Oh, I get it, I said. You're Evil Harry, lurking inside Good Harry. Right? And you only come out at night?

She was furious that I had seen her true form, horrified and embarrassed that I had stripped her disguise away and seen the creature beneath. And she was afraid that I could take away even her mask, forever, with my power.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

More than anything, I wanted to crawl into a hole and pull it in after me. I wanted to be not.

rocket launcher like it was a coat. Karrin let him, giving him an edged smile that she directed past him, to the shadows where the Genoskwa lurked. "I didn't kill the accountant," she said quietly. "Nicodemus said not to." That surprised me a little. If she wanted to hide herself from me, she didn't need to go to the effort of lying. All she had to do was stay silent. "He said that to all of us," I said.

Everything's never in the open, son," he responded. "There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times. Or that's been my experience.

Bernard nodded. Then he put his hand on the ground, and Amara felt a faint tremor in the earth beneath their feet as he called upon his earth fury, Brutus, to create a hiding place. A few seconds later, the ground under them simply began to flow away, a slithery sensation in the soles of her feet, and they sank downward

Who were those guys?" "I can't tell you that," I said. There was an empty second, and then Billy's voice turned cautious. "Why? Is it some kind of secret, need-to-know wizard thing?" "No. I just have no freaking clue who it was.

Let the deep things stay deep.

Please don't assume that I do not realize secrets are being kept from me. Tolerance is not the same as ignorance.

You can't beat the Fair Folk as housekeepers. You also can't tell people about them, because they'll pack up and clear out. Why? I have no idea. They're faeries, and that's just how it works.

the agrochemical industry "sets up the public for mass poisoning" by concealing the true toxicity of their chemical formulations and by focusing solely on the risks associated with the active ingredient in their formulations.

He could be breaking apart inside and you'd never know it from the way he acted. He'd be just as pleasant and polite as if he didn't have a care in the world. You had to be careful with someone like that. You could never know what he was thinking.

Thank you adult mittens, for allowing me to give people the finger without them knowing it.