Quotes About Concealment

I was seventeen and there were so many things I didn't know yet, but I knew about hiding.

and everything that's been seen and everything that's hidden.

Their mother, that swan neck, those elegant arms. Her dark hair gathered up tightly with her grandmother's dragonfly combs. So dignified, so refined, carrying so much inside all the time. Surrounded all day by mirrors and never letting anyone see.

They all played it so straight, as if they were just girls, girls with gentle smiles and simple needs. But the truth was they all lived in a gasp of tension.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

People see what they want to see. They're busy trying to figure out who Bandersnitch is, but what they don't expect is someone who looks like me, so no one sees me, even when I'm right in front of them. I'm hiding in plain sight. I stay in the background mostly. It's a damnable thing, but it works. You were surprised at who I was, remember. I wasn't as you imagined me.

So close. Yet not close enough that either had mentioned the other to her family—even to the point that my mother had not included her sister in her story of the Exposition. My

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

Darkness reveals as much as it hides, sometimes.

And still, we said nothing, like we'd all been trained so well to do.

I got it together, of course. I always did. I pushed away what shamed me and made me unhappy, and I smoothed out the rest to make a pretty, perfect surface. It was getting harder and harder to do.

Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.

your ability to see is sometimes only as good as your willingness to go unseen.

It is in the vision of the physical eyes That no invisible or secret thing exists. But when the eye is turned toward the Light of God What thing could remain hidden under such Light?

Darkness has the ability to cover up; light has the ability to uncover! Darkness is the enemy of truth; light is the friend of truth!

Everywhere man is in disguise! Who is who is unknown! Try to enter the mask and find out who the man inside really is!

We spend our lives hiding deep inside ourselves in paralyzing fear that someone might see us as we really are, or worse: We might see ourselves.

Tom always did anger well. Hid it well, but showed it even better

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

So do you think there's more to her than meets the eye!" he teased, and Alex cursed herself for being so easy to read. "My guess is she's running from something. "No shit Sherlock", she agreed silently. "Probably a guy. It's nearly always a guy.

There was no way that sentence was coming out of my mouth.

He would, in essence, be the person that he was assigned to embody as his cover—and he'd enjoy it. That was the trick, finding the pleasure in it.

Lepiej jest nie wiedzie? za du?o, przyjacielu. To znaczy, rozs?dnie jest wiedzie? tyle, ile si? da, ale jeszcze rozs?dniej jest utrzymywa? innych w niewiedzy co do w?asnej wiedzy.

This was the virtue of Israel, to have "contended with Elokim and with men" and to have prevailed over their respective concealments of G-d. They are no longer barriers to him; indeed they assent to his blessings. He not only won his struggle with the angel (the guardian angel of Esau) but the angel himself blessed him. This is the achievement of which the Proverbs speak: "He makes even his enemies be at peace with him."14