Quotes About Concealment

Out of sight, out of body, there is nothing, there is no longer anything. And the words that humans invented to make themselves believe there was something, first of all the word "death" itself, fraught with terror and hope, only conceal the nothingness.

Nobody could've ever known I was positive because I didn't know.

There is nothing like desire for obstructing any resemblance between what one says and what one has on one's mind.

As coisas de que falamos o mais das vezes em tom de gracejo são geralmente, ao contrário, as que incomodam, mas não queremos mostrá-lo, com talvez a esperança inconfessada de uma vantagem suplementar: de justamente a pessoa com quem conversamos, ouvindo-nos gracejar daquilo, pensar que não é verdade.

I think that Françoise disbelieved me, for, like those primitive men whose senses were so much keener than our own, she could immediately detect, by signs imperceptible by the rest of us, the truth or falsehood of anything that we might wish to conceal from her.

Her face was plastered with layers of powder and looked like a face of stone. And with her noble profile, she seemed, on the triangular, moss-covered pedestal hidden by her cape, like a crumbling goddess in a park.

At that moment, noticing that his embroidered handkerchief was revealing part of its coloured edging, he thrust it back into his pocket with a startled glance, like a prudish but not innocent woman concealing bodily charms which in her excessive modesty she sees as wanton.

He also went invisible, yet stayed (such privilege hath omnipresence).

Depression does its damage and then it hides, covering its tracks, making you think that it is not an illness, that you're just bad and weird.

It's darker than a black cat's ass in a coal mine, when you get back there.

there, looking for a man they wouldn't find. They'd go because they'd know for sure that Horn couldn't be in Goodhue County, where he'd be known and chased on sight. . . . Horn had suggested another step: killing a woman from the Alexandria area, still farther

I don't watch porn," Cooper snapped. Loma shrugged. "Okay, it's a free country." Lucas glanced at Virgil, who was glancing at him: Virgil lifted an eyebrow and Lucas nodded. They agreed. Cooper watched porn, and probably, Lucas thought, girl on girl. Shouldn't lie about it when you have professional lie detectors listening in.

He dressed in dark sport coats over black golf shirts because, he thought, they made him look smaller. They didn't; they made him look like a hole in space.

So I've decided," Taryn said. "Do it, but be clever about it. Don't give yourself away. Call from a cold phone.

Hide' isn't a word we like to use, Cassaway said. 'Perform alternative tasks' is the preferred term.

When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.

Hide' isn't a word we like to use," Cassaway said. "'Perform alternative tasks' is the preferred term." "Just not in the storage room," Mbeke said. "That's our alternative tasking place." "I'll just alternatively task behind my work desk, then, shall I," Dahl said. "That's the spirit," Mbeke said. *

She had the expression of the cat who ate the canary and then threw it up in her owner's favorite shoes.

What we don't know can't hurt us.

he wasn't much of a natural in anything. This was something he sensed early and hid with overcompensation, which is why so many of his training squad members thought he was an asshole.

Tom grinned through his mask; I saw it through the eye crinkles

She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.