Quotes About Concealment

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place

If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

If you have to keep something a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

In my experience most people in your profession seem to think that if they do not admit the existence of a mistake, the mistake will not exist.

Studying the Templars had become like viewing pornography—many did it, few openly.

THE SAFE HOUSE" was our code name for Denny's.

A mask of feigned nonchalance. It took practice to come up with that look. Somebody who had been shamed so many times that he'd adapted to simply never showing it, rather than changing to not do things he was ashamed of.

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Incapace com'ero di nutrire un briciolo di fiducia nella mia facoltà di parlare e d'agire come un essere umano, custodivo rinchiuse nel petto le mie angosce solitarie. Tenevo nascoste l'agitazione e la malinconia, preoccupandomi d'evitare che avesse a trapelarne qualche traccia.

The more attention you seek the more invisibility you reap

Each fake called for some more fakes to cover the first ones up,

The most crime is; when a brave person hid to tell the Truth because many people will suffer most.

Lord Templeton-Vane bared his teeth in what a stupid person might have mistaken for a smile.

Yes, but you usually aren't ... Well, I have to keep them covered or else you lose the power of speech

An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.

You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we "don't know" what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn't. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

It's a simple truth that a secret is something you're ashamed of.

A secret," he said. "A secret is the heaviest thing in the world.

Maybe it was better to be who he thought I was than who I thought I was.

I'm fine." Oh, how we love and overuse fine, our all-purpose little evasion. Fine means not fine. Fine means Pity me. Fine means Don't ask.