Quotes About Concealment

smiling a fixed smile that never touched his eyes.

A plan revealed is a plan doomed to fail.

Who are you that addresses me so? Hide your face from me, stranger. I had a son, once, with a face like that. I do not wish to see it on a killer.

Always remember that. There were enemies everywhere, and you never knew who.

Simplemente no puedo ser amable. No puedo expresar mis sentimientos... Como si eso de alguna manera fuera revelarme demasiado... Exponerme. Así que siempre aparento ser tranquila, escondo mis emociones... Trato de ser fía y calmada. Tengo dificultad de abrirme con la gente.

It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca.

It matters little that you are afraid if you manage to hide it. You are then at the edge of courage. (one of Jaujard's philosophies)

It's the clothes that make them think you're not really there.

Sie las in ihrem Leiden viel und entdeckte, daß ihr etwas verlorengegangen war, von dessen Besitz sie vordem nicht viel gewußt hatte: eine Seele. Was ist das? – Es ist negativ leicht bestimmt: es ist eben das, was sich verkriecht, wenn man von algebraischen Reihen hört.

Mucha gente tiene problemas financieros porque permite que sus emociones controlen su vida. En lugar de enfrentar sus miedos, se esconden de ellos. Así como muchos empleados se ocultan bajo el cobijo del cheque constante y el empleo seguro.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.

We are never half so interesting when we have learned that language is given us to enable us to conceal our thoughts.

You know if we've got anything about us that hurts we shrink from anyone's touch on or near it. It holds good with our souls as well as our bodies, I reckon. Leslie's soul must be near raw - it's no wonder she hides it away.

one sin demands another to cover it.

Shut the windows, draw the curtains, keep the rumour out!

That she lived a lie. That she wasn't the good girl everyone believed her to be, wanted her to be.

If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn't find out, that person always did.

A Tita le encantaría ser una simple semilla, no tener que dar cuentas a nadie de lo que se estaba gestando en su interior, y poder demostrarle al mundo su viente germinado sin exponerse al rechazo de la sociedad

Maybe my behavior is less about what I'm hiding and more about wanting to keep things hidden. Secrecy feels like power. And safety.

spoke through her teeth, another skill

mi crollò in grembo, costringendomi a tenerlo tra le braccia mentre piangeva, squassato da spasmi e singhiozzi, come se fosse letteralmente straziato e squartato dal dolore, eppure in silenzio, senza un grido, senza un gemito, quasi che gli fosse stato insegnato a non attirare troppo l'attenzione sulla propria sofferenza. Se fai troppo rumore, vengono a cercarti per scoprire perché piangi.

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

I hesitated on getting my backup gun and putting it in my purse, but didn't. My purse, like all purses, seems to have a travelling black hole in it. I'd never get the gun out in time if I really needed it.

That part of us that we trap in our dreams and deny in daylight hours.