Quotes About Concealment

So where's the real you? Huh? Let's say you decide to rip away the mask -- what kind of face will be revealed? The problem is that when a human face has spent a number of years beneath a mask, deprived of light and oxygen, it changes. Not only does it age, as all faces do, but it tends to get a bit pallid, flaccid, puffy...

For forgiveness does not resolve latent hatred and self-hatred but rather covers them up in a very dangerous way.

Whenever I think of him... I don't know why, but my chest feels so tight, it's hard to breathe. I need to keep it secret just a little bit longer.

We're only pretending everything is normal because we don't know what else to do.

Beneath every story, there is another story. There is a hand within the hand...... There is a blow behind the blow.

And so began her own life, a secret life. She had no idea where it would lead her, but only that she had no choice. Once you see, you cannot unsee.

the empty-closet theory of the breast: if it's there, it will be stuffed.

Most keep their condition secret from all but a few close friends. Interestingly, many of them say the thing they regret most is not their inability to have children but the lack of menstruation, the event they see as a monthly voucher of femaleness.

vulnerability equals weakness, and weakness arouses contempt. I had only to hide my longing and my desire, and they would be fulfilled. Or at least they'd have a chance.

There are secrets behind everything that God creates.

if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom...

She doesn't let anyone see it...but on the other side of that door, I somehow get the feeling that she's quietly falling apart.

If you say I hide things because I'm shy, that can't be right. I've finally realized it's for a different reason-- that I don't want to see the darkness that lies in my heart

Boredom is a mask frustration wears.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don't. I don't. People are much more complicated than that. It's true of everybody.

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions

Lying is about controlling someone else's reality, hoping that what they don't know won't hurt you.

I read this article about how you can have anything going on in your head, as long as it doesn't manifest itself. Like a reflection.' I waited for my sister to expand on that, but she remained quiet. 'LIke a reflection that's different from what's doing the reflecting,' I suggested.

It's funny about 'passing.' We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and yet we rather admire it. We shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it.

It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn't matter, if no one knew.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

THE DESIRE FOR PRIVACY is strong; vanity is stronger.

The worst thing about fear is what it does to you when you try to hide it.

In their family, even the most nuclear of disputes remained under wraps until eventually it dissipated, seemingly for the simple reason that no one was prepared to stoke the fire.