Quotes About Concealment

I only now understand why it is that people lie about their past, why they say they are one thing other than the thing they really are, why they invent a self that bears no resemblance to who they really are, why anyone would want to feel as if he or she belongs to nothing, comes from no one, just fell out of the sky, whole.

You can't tell nobody what they don't know—not even that they don't know

Each of us—on the outside, in front of others—dresses in dignity, but inside himself he is well aware of these unconfessable things that pass through the secrecy of his heart.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

They signed in as Mr. P. Villa and Mrs. S. Hayek.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

Excessive symmetry is either unnatural and conceals some human thought behind it, or else supernatural and conceals some mystery.

No hay nadie que no se lleve un secreto a la tumba, y no hay mayor gloria para un secreto que morir sin haber sido desvelado. La sinceridad, llevada al fanatismo, solo puede conducir a la destrucción.

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.

The only secret people keep is 'Immortality', Dickinson once said. Immortality is the mystery at the core of her story.

When we were in hiding, we were never hidden from God.

Seregil, that hurts." Alec's soft, tense voice brought him back and he found himself clutching the boy's shoulder. He hurriedly released him and sat back. Alec closed cold fingers over his own. "What is it? You look like you've just seen your own ghost." A desperate ache lanced thorugh Seregil as he looked down into those dark blue eyes. if you let slip the slightest detail Damn you, Nysander! "I can't tell you, talí , because I'd only have to lie.

What was her disguise? For once, she [Verity] did not know. She was the female Mr. Twaddle-Thum dressed as a clerk pretending to be a reporter. If any of the staff recognized her as Robert Lark, none of them indicated it by look or deed.

For the habitually reserved Englishman . . . concealment of his emotions is the first and cardinal rule of gentlemanliness and social grace," one Ko?ciuszko Squadron pilot observed.

I lower my head so that you don't see my eyes, to deny you the joy of an exchanged glance,

Indian and everything else, away. So Omri had had to keep it secret, and

What are you doing here " "Hiding with you

Él cubre y perdona lo que nosotros solo hemos podido ocultar. Perdona lo que nunca podríamos ser lo suficientemente buenos para hacerlo de manera correcta.

Satan wants us to sneak things in secret.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.

I would never have to fake my own death, he found himself thinking. I've all but vanished already. Part of him welcomed that. Another part, larger but distributed so thinly across his personality that it seemed invisible, panicked soundlessly on a twenty-four-hour schedule.

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

There is no virtue in concealment. When the earth is rendered chaos, regulations of speech and propriety are rendered impotent, just as city may become desolate, and street, battle ground, and flesh may become fire.