Quotes About Concealment

Those eyes, hidden deep in that hooded cloak, could penetrate subterfuge and dissimulation as easily as X-rays penetrated flesh and illuminated the bones for all to see.

We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know what crimes have been committed. - The Man in the Iron Mask (155)

The value of a secret depends upon whom you're trying to keep it from.

The elephant in the room. It can't be talked about. It can't be ignored.

An old gunslinger once told me that you never draw a gun unless you intend to use it, and you never—ever—tell someone you are going to draw your gun. You just do it.

It is better to exist unknown to the law.' 

It is better to exist unknown to the law.

To remain unknown in this modern world: that, indeed, is real power.

Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind.

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it, being filled and arrested by this strong light.

Visibility is a trap.

La seule chance de survie, lorsqu'on est sincèrement épris, consiste à dissimuler à la femme qu'on aime, à feindre en toute circonstance un léger détachement.

We bury what we don't want to know. And sometimes it comes out in odd ways

What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.

Men like that — when they know they won't be found out — they will do anything.

She didn't know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn't know the animal that waited in my stomach, silently shredding the walls. For her, my heart wore small white shoes and carried a purse, went to bed early. I wanted to shoot myself into her arms so she understood the need to crash cars with me, to tear up pavement because we were beautiful.

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots.

The murders were more deed-focused than process-focused. The actual murder of the victim and setting him alight was much more important to the killer than meticulous planning or an attempt to conceal the bodies.

A killer who operates in the dark of night and takes precautions to hide his identity has a low risk, while one who blatantly commits the murder without regard for being identified takes a greater risk. Serial killers' arrogance sometimes causes them to take greater risks.

Serial killers generally present themselves as normal people to the rest of the community. They go to church, they take their children to school, visit restaurants and buy groceries just like everyone else. They are someone's son, someone's brother, someone's neighbour. I sometimes think of them as nice people who have this nasty habit of killing others.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Sometimes to be silent is to lie.

Los hombres no sucumbimos a las grandes penas ni a las grandes alegrías, y es porque esas penas y esas alegrías vienen embozadas en una