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Quotes About Concealment

We discover, often too late to talk to him about it, an episode from his life that a loved one has concealed from you. Has he really hidden it from you? He has forgotten, or more likely, over time, he no longer thinks about it. Or, quite simply, he can't find the words.
~ Patrick Modiano
We live at the mercy of certain silences. We have all known things about each other for a long time. So we try to avoid each other. It would be for the best, of course, if none of us were ever to see each other again.
~ Patrick Modiano
You know that your truth, the one that you hide… is the thing you are most afraid of.
~ Patrick Ness
Something I chose to forget because it didn't fit in with how shit everything was.
~ Patrick Ness
You know that is not true, the monster said. You know that your truth, the one that you hide, Conor O'Malley, is the thing you are most afraid of.
~ Patrick Ness
At her core, she was broken, and life was just one long attempt to distract people from noticing
~ Patrick Ness
How can invisible men make themselves more lonely by being seen?
~ Patrick Ness
Harry leaned forward, his eyes flashing. "I see nothing.
~ Patrick Ness
What happened in the nightmare was something no one else ever needed to know. Conor
~ Patrick Ness
Y si nadie te ve, se puede decir que estes ahi?
~ Patrick Ness
Nunca mas invisible -Pero hay cosas peores que ser invisible
~ Patrick Ness
We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I knelt and opened up my lute case. Moving the lute aside, I pressed the lid of the secret compartment and twisted it open. I slid Threpe's sealed letter inside, where it joined the hollow horn with Nina's drawing and a small sack of dried apple I had stowed there. There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
She felt ... less. She felt tamped down. Dim. More faint. Feint. Feigned. Fain.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I said nothing. Like a child playing find-and-catch, it was my sincere hope that if I closed my eyes and remained perfectly still, the pain wouldn´t be able to find me.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You were a little wild around the eyes there," she (Denna) said gently. "I don't think I've ever seen you out of sorts before." I took another slow breath. I'm out of sorts all the time," I (Kvothe) said. "I just don't show it.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
They had spilled their secrets, and Auri knew full well how heavy hard-held secrets could become.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What what. Hush hush.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
She knew the cave wasn't very deep. But everything seems bigger in the dark.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I slid Threpe's sealed letter inside, where it joined the hollow horn with Nina's drawing and a small sack of dried apple I had stowed there. There was nothing special about the dried apple, but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.
~ Patrick Rothfuss