Quotes About Concealment

he wanted so much, but asked for nothing. Just pretended he was respectable. Pretended as if he was never gripped by animalistic savagery

Writers write badly when they have something to hide.

Writers write badly when they have something to hide. Clarity makes their shaky assumptions plain to the readers – and to themselves.

The other bomb disappeared

If she kept moving, she didn't have to think. She didn't have to see into herself. If she kept moving, no else could see into her, either.

Never say the dangerous thing aloud.

She heard the secret, perhaps a secret no one wholly mortal should hear.

Holding secrets, her mother said, made a man feel mighty.

It shines and it gleams, but is not what it seems.

I looked at my hands, turned them over in the tarnished shine of streetlights seeping through a crack in the curtains. They were long; strong and competent with nicely shaped nails; hard enough for a palm strike, soft enough to trace gentle arabesques on a taut trembling stomach or along a soft inner thigh. The stains did not show.

Hidden in the leafy canopy, sometimes she stayed so still and quiet even the birds forgot she was there.

I never knew my father," she said again, slowly. She could only tell the truth. "Of the rest, I may not speak.

Indifference was her cloak and shield.

Marxists define the bourgeoisie in economic terms in order to hide from us the fact that they belong to it.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools

Everything is deception, everything is a dream, everything is not what it seems to be!

Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret." —HERCULE POIROT

decided to take himself away, as if not seeing something spared you from its sorrow.

as if not seeing something spared you from its sorrow.

There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.

Couldn't you see that all my flippancy was only a mask, hiding my real emotions--crushing them down desperately!

but I think when you are trying so hard to hide your own truth, it's hard to see anyone else's." -Ruby

If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is even more so. What is not generally understood is that many of the vaunted pain-killing drugs conceal the pain without correcting the underlying condition. They deaden the mechanism in the body that alerts the brain to the fact that something may be wrong. The body can pay a high price for suppression of pain without regard to its basic cause.

Y}ou make do with what you're given, and I've spent a good many years learning to write fine-sounding sentences so that I can hide behind them. It's the way of the hermit crab, with nothing to recommend it but the pretty shell it annexes for its own.