Quotes About Concealment

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

Shadows hold their breath;

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you—Nobody—Too?

You can run but you can't hide

That either (a) she uses children to hide her real adult emotions, or (b) she is still a child herself.

right—secrets and lies are really the same thing

Adults could be barefaced liars too, of course, and about no subject so much as their own bodies. In Lib's experience, those who wouldn't cheat a shopkeeper by a farthing would lie about how much brandy they drank or whose room they'd entered and what they'd done there. Girls bursting out of their stays denied their condition till the pangs gripped them. Husbands swore blind that their wives' smashed faces were none of their doing. Everybody was a repository of secrets.

Fog makes an island of every man.

Well, as they say, all cats are grey in the dark.

It sounded like a muffled clanking

Will you miss him Holly?" he asked suddenly. [...] "No," she said. "I will not miss him." But her eyes told the real story.

I like to be loved, he thought, but he did not voice the notion

Mulch locked his mouth and threw away the key.

He glanced up sharply when Holly entered through the pneumatic double doors. "Anybody see you come in here?" Holly thought about it. "The FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA, MI6. Oh, and the EIB." Foaly frowned. "The EIB?" "Everyone in the building." Holly smirked.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Molto più importante di quello che sappiamo o non sappiamo è quello che non vogliamo sapere.

Lack of self-awareness renders us transparent. A soul that knows itself is opaque; like Adam after he ate from the tree of knowledge it uses words as fig leaves to cover its nakedness and shame.

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

jokes are used to hide the truth!

Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast good conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking façade.

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

I'm told they buried they body with the garter belt still on.

Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.