Quotes About Concealment

Normal = neutral expression concealing existential despair and brain-crushing boredom.)

I told myself I still looked like a SecUnit without armor, hopelessly exposed, but the truth was I did look more human. And now I knew why I hadn't wanted to do this. It would make it harder for me to pretend not to be a person.

Ratthi had to fold his lips almost completely inside his mouth to keep from reacting.

I would have either disposed of the body so it was never found, or made it look like an accident." Indah frowned, and Aylen's brow creased, and they exchanged a look. Eyeing me, Indah said, "How would you dispose of a body so it wouldn't be found?" I'm not the public library feed, Senior Officer, go do your own research. I said, "If I told you, then you might find all the bodies I've already disposed of.

I had my helmet plate opaqued, so I could wince a lot without any of them knowing.

One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter. Everyone has something to hide.

Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might think of us. But there's more to it than that. We are terrified of what they might do with the knowledge.

But Michelangelo did not want us to know how he learned to sculpt and, whatever the truth of the matter, he succeeded in suppressing it. The impression he wanted to pass down was that he just picked up the art of sculpture through sheer brilliance and inherent understanding of design; conceivably, that might even be correct.

men and women have two ages: a chronological age, and an emotional age they feel inside. (I'll explore this subject in more detail in a later chapter.) Men typically conceal evidence of their younger selves in drawers, or buried inside online folders, whereas women are less embarrassed about publicly showcasing their younger selves, and express it openly

La realidad de la situación del hombre —su efectiva carencia de libertad— le está oculta a éste mientras no conozca a Aquel en quien llega a entender y captar simultáneamente su propia realidad y la de Dios, su perdida condición y la misericordia divina, esas dos realidades que el hombre sólo puede comprender en uno y el mismo momento —o nunca.

It is easy to speak God's name and to record his glory on paper and walls; but to praise God with an upright heart, to bless him for his benevolence, to call upon him in every distress, and to seek consolation from him—those are truly the greatest works, though rarely seen, alongside faith. When

People only know what you tell them. Well, if you didn't tell them anything then you were safe.

If my father discovered my secret, that for some time now I have been foiling his efforts to have the hart, I would lose my thumbs indeed, son or no," he said. "But it is cold, and I would have my clothes back.

Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.

The powers cannot see those who have put on the perfect light, and they cannot seize them. One puts on the light in the mystery of union.

But ignorance of the father brought terror and fear, and terror grew dense like a fog, so that no one could see.

The Japanese say we have three faces. The first face, you show to the world. The second face, you show to your close friends and family. The third face, you never show anyone. It is the truest reflection of who you are.—Unknown

Why couldn't people just be who they were? Womanizers, drinkers, liars, and manipulators, instead of pretending around it all, hiding the secrets like dirty laundry stuffed under a bed, and then dying, so the grieving got whammed with two losses—the flesh-and-blood bodies and the images they thought they knew.

This is a house of secrets. A House of evil. A nest for the devil if ever there was one.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]

The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.