Quotes About Concealment

La vergüenza humana surge exclusivamente de la amenaza del descubrimiento.

It is easier to be blind than to pretend you're not blind.

Someone who wants to remain hidden so that you'll forget he's even there. He'll do everything he can to make you feel like you will never win.

Rich kids—they can never admit they're rich.

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

Dreams drawn from the sheath.

And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things—all things!—but only so long as it remains invisible.

HOUSE OF MIRRORS. REFLECT BEFORE YOU ENTER. NO ONE MAY EVER SEE YOU AGAIN!

It's so dark, I thought, studying it from the street. The whole house was covered in darkness, as if it were hiding in the shadows of the gnarled, old trees that bent over it.

Why? Eve asked between breathless pants. she wasn't much of a runner either. Someone's coming Shane said. Shhhh. Eve choked and strangled on a cough, and muttered got to cut down on the cigarettes. you don't smoke, Claire whispered. then i'm completely screwed.

I feel like I'm some kind of fugitive here, like I'm hiding from something. Maybe myself.

There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words please stay

Lying had become her clothing—without it she'd freeze.

He'd not known what was happening to us in Lisbon, Constantina. The full truth of our situation hadn't been told of in England

Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see.

Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

When you keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the best of motives, there is a danger that you will create a smaller life within your main life. The first secret will spin off other secrets that also must be kept, complicated webs of evasion that grow into elaborate architectures of repressed truths and subterfuge, until you discover that you must live two narratives at once.

some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

The windows were heavily draped, and the milk-pitcher moon couldn't find gaps through which to pour itself. All was blackness on blackness.

You play everything so close to your vest, it's like your entire life is one long poker hand.

There are numerous tools with which to conceal the truth, although nothing has been quite as effective and reassuring as six or eight or ten feet of compacted earth.

can't see anything inside, just vague shapes, which probably means the glass is heavily tinted and polarized, so it looks clear from inside but not from out here

O, WHAT MAY MAN WITHIN HIM HIDE, THOUGH ANGEL ON THE OUTWARD SIDE! —William Shakespeare

Nameless has no credit cards. He rarely carries identification of any kind, not even in false names.