Quotes About Concealment

Any smidgen of emotion revealed would crack the careful mask of control and leave the person in pieces.

I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud. •

And Peter, with his 20/20 vision, cast his eyes downward, so that he wouldn't see.

Flashlights were effective, but they also screamed "I'M RIGHT FUCKING HERE!" to anyone within view.

There'll be things in your life you'll regret. Dumb mistakes, bad choices. They're like these awful tattoos you can't get rid of. So you wear something over them. Keep them out of sight. That's all I've been doing. Just trying not to look at it.

Lovat thinks you can just hide someone in a place like the Commercial Road. You can't! It might be part of one of the busiest cities on earth, but at heart the East End is just a village. Too small to hide out in.

I was always a distinct no-one, whose fiercest wish was to be an indistinct someone.

This is the only way another creature can be known: on the surface, that's where there is depth.

When you have once seen the chaos, you must make some thing to set between yourself and that terrible sight; and so you make a mirror, thinking that it shall be reflected the reality of the world; but then you understand that the mirror reflects only appearances, and that reality is somewhere else, off behind the mirror; and then you remember that behind the mirror there is only the chaos.

This is the only way another creature can be known: on the surface, that's where there is depth.

Sin easily hides where there is no heat of trials and afflictions.

Si no hablo, podría desaparecer.

Anger is often blocked from conscious awareness and converted into more tolerable or family-authorized feelings, such as hurt or guilt. The person feeling anger no longer feels it; he feels the acceptable feeling.

Refusing to accept our "real selves," we try to create more powerful false selves, or we give up and become less than human. This results in a lifetime of cover-up and secrecy. This secrecy and hiding is the basic cause of human suffering.

We know, we feel in our guts, that decisions are constantly being made which are going to wreck our ambitions, our dreams, our personal relationships. But the people making those decisions are keeping them secret, because if they don't they'll lose the leverage they have over their subordinates.

Sometimes we have to hide our feelings, because the people we have the feelings for, may never understand how much we care about them.

The hardest part of acting like you don't care, is knowing how much you actually do.

You better not show that video to anyone.

Best way to not get your heart broken, is to pretend you don't have one.

Behind my smile is everything youll never understand.

You asked me what was wrong, I smiled and said nothing, when you turned around and a tear came down and I whispered to myself... everything is.

I go into my room and lock myself inside. There's no escaping this pain that's eating me alive. It's like I'm walking around with a big fake smile outside, but nobody realizes I want it to end. Nobody cares that I don't want to pretend. And why would they? I always smile anyway.

Hurts don't it? How much strength it takes to act like you don't know him. To not make eye contact with the one thing that meant the most to you. And yet, he'll never know. He'll never know how many times you typed 'I miss you' and then deleted it. He'll never know how many times you dialed his number and didn't press call. He'll never know how much it hurt, right?

Only my pillow knows the amount of emotions I hide from the world.