Quotes About Concealment

But it's true, she thought, nobody really knows a thing about another's past. Why should we? Different worlds we all inhabit from the womb.

Her mother was fine. Her mother was always fine. Fine was her way of saying she didn't exist.

I wonder if they're shielding themselves from me, and not the icy wind. If they knew what I've done… what I'm capable of… what I'm planning to do… they'd do more than cover their necks with scarves. I scowl into the wind. I hate cowardice.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

i thought about the miseries people conceal and how they manage to survive.

Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.

Tocohl frowned, and saw Kejesli suddenly for what he was. He was a man trying not to be Sheveschkem, without conscious knowledge of what being Sheveschkem actually entailed. He spoke GalLing' but danced Sheveschkem; he wore worlds' motley, but lowered his ceiling.

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.

I've always felt that the best place to hide a body is in the trunk of a cop car, with a note affixed to the body that reads, I'm sorry.

No one knows who you are right now. And that's just fine. Being obscure is a great position to be in. Be happy you're in the shadows.

Biroco cites Trithemius's own statement in the third book of the Steganographia: "This I did that to men of learning and men deeply engaged in the study of magic, it might, by the Grace of God, be in some degree intelligible, while on the other hand, to the thick-skinned turnip-eater it might for all time remain a hidden secret, and be to their dull intellects a sealed book forever."28

I got up and stared at myself in the bathroom mirror, first thinking about how great I looked, then thinking about how the cops weren't going to catch me.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

Casi todo el mundo se avergüenza de su juventud, no es muy cierto que se añore como se dice, más bien se relega o rehúye y con facilidad o esfuerzo se confina el origen a la esfera de los malos sueños, o de las novelas, o de lo que no ha existido. La juventud se oculta, la juventud es secreta para quienes ya no nos conocen jóvenes.

A verdade nunca resplandece, como diz a fórmula, porque a única verdade é a que não se conhece nem se transmite, a que não se traduz em palavras nem em imagens, a encoberta e não averiguada, e talvez por isso se conte tanto ou se conte tudo, para que nunca tenha ocorrido nada, uma vez que se conta

Lo decisivo jamás se muestra, ni siquiera se comunica, o no en su momento; al contrario, se esconde y se silencia siempre, o durante muchísimo tiempo: si acaso se cuenta cuando ya no interesa, cuando es pasado remoto, y a la gente el pasado le trae sin cuidado, cree que no le afecta y que no puede cambiarse, y lleva razón en esto último

Quienes actúan envueltos en niebla y de espaldas al resto, y no reclaman ni necesitan reconocimiento, esos son los que turban más el universo.

Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera y de una evolución, la de su protagonista. También de la fragilidad y la tenacidad de una relación amorosa condenada al secreto y a la ocultación, al fingimiento y a la conjetura, y en última instancia al resentimiento mezclado con la lealtad.

people were like icebergs--most of what really went on, especially the ugliness, was submerged

YOUR LEAKY FACE Who can see your face? Everyone. Who can't see your face? You.

Smugglin' that by me? That's like tryin' to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.