Quotes About Concealment

El mundo no ve el interior de las personas, y que poco importan las esperanzas, penas y sueños que albergamos bajo una máscara de piel y hueso. Es así de sencillo, cruel y absurdo.

Ik denk dat er verhalen zijn die niet verteld hoeven te worden.

the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone.

Personal Note: I'm trying really hard to keep a straight face at this point)

He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

Can we get back to how we're going to kill Nick? And what's this about a dead body? You'd better start talking quick, Ivy, 'cause I'm not going to play hide-and-seek with a dead guy in my trunk. I did that in college, and I'm not going to do it again." A smile quirked Ivy's mouth. "Really?" she asked, and I flushed.

Look at yourself right now. You're half dead from blood loss, and you're out shopping. These disguises look great, but that's all they are: thin sheets of maybe standing between you and trouble.

I expected it would be the same for me, and I wouldn't show up as a wolf in black tights and a lacy pair of underwear —as amusing as that would be. No way was I going to show them I was a nasty pasty color with freckles.

Living a lie tore at one's being and leaked out in the oddest of places.

The dangerous reality of the Hollows remains carefully hidden. We know if we color too far out of humanity's self-imposed lines, old fears will resurface and they will strike out at us.

Nakedness was dangerous to the social order, she thought, because it revealed too much reality.

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For a man as keen as he on getting into bed with women, keeping hidden the full enormity of his fatness was a chronic problem. Its most acute form naturally came up when someone new had to be hustled or cajoled past the point of no return. That point tended to get later and later as his belly waxed.

What did she think about behind that tranquil face of hers? Whatever the provocation, she never clenched her jaws, swore or got angry. Did she watch everything from a distance, as if even her own life was happening to someone else? Nobody could see it but instead of a face, she wore a mask. No, Ravan wanted to rephrase that. What he and everybody else saw was the mask, not what went on inside.

I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all.

It is a sad spectacle, a dead town trying to pretend it is alive.

Though she'd never been ashamed of what she'd done, she'd kept it secret because she'd understood that others wouldn't view it the same way she did.

I think you are just like this house, Evangeline. Rich and fine on the outside, but no one's got a clue what's going on inside.

Some secrets can never be known. They go to the grave with you like children never born. —LUCIA THE HUNTRESS, Valkyrie of mysterious origin, world's most skilled archeress

You're doing it again, Lousha. What? Looking like you want me to kiss you. She flushed. Was she that transparent? Dream on, werewolf. I do, constantly.

Any highlights you discovered that you'd like to share?" "Don't worry— not every detail will make it back to Kovalev." Smirk. "Such as the arsenal you keep under your mattress.

Reveal yourself, mage! Only a coward stays cloaked in invisibility.

It is easy to disappear when no one is looking at you.

We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet!" I burst out in shame. Timmie's eyes goggled. Is he still there?