Quotes About Concealment

I would always rather not know. Then, no matter what can happen, it was not me that talked.

The Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady are Lesbians under their skin.

I found a strange solace and safety in my power of invisibility and made obscurity my residence.

Domestic Eroticism is wrapped in a veil of appropriateness

Occasionally I looked at Bea to see if she was running over those events like I was, the sound effects living their own life behind her eyes, but she gave nothing away.

Revenge often looks petty, but I have come to respect the depth of hurt it conceals.

These are not simply naive, lonely, desperate women who'll take love in whatever form they can get it. In fact, they are pragmatic about their reasons for choosing to not only live with a secret but be a secret.

Per un breve periodo si può far finta di non sapere la verità. È come trattenere il respiro. Ma alla fine bisogna riprendere aria. Più in profondità si seppellisce una bugia, più forte è la pressione quando esplode.

Il razionalismo moderno fa come gli struzzi: mette la testa sotto terra per nascondersi, e si ritiene soddisfatto se riesce a drogare milioni e milioni di uomini con le «istruzioni per l'uso»

The future story writer in the child I was must have taken unconscious note and stored it away then: one secret is liable to be revealed in the place of another that is harder to tell, and the substitute secret when nakedly exposed is often the more appalling.

Have you ever had to get through a day, smiling at people, talking, as if everything were normal and okay, while all the time you felt like you were carrying a leaden weight of unhappiness inside you?

It's one thing to kill someone and not leave evidence or hide the body so it's never found, but to be able to murder someone and have everyone think it was an accident of nature? That's some kind of genius.

For me, at least, half of dealing with grief is trying to figure out what I'm supposed to show the outside world.

Often it's to suss you out and decide if you're hiding something and how you hide things.

Joe Vik knew what he was. He saw that he was a monster in human skin and maintained that facade for as long as he could.

I am only half myself. the other side's a dark idea I like to believe in.

It was as though I had been admitted into an underground club that was nursing a secret. A dangerous secret.

more unselfish than I had been. What was I doing now? Was I finally overcoming that? Were my needs demanding to be addressed, no matter what the potential risk? Was it my time? Did all adulterers go through a similar self-analysis or didn't they give it a second thought? It was certainly easier not to think about it. Could I do that? Could I avoid imagining Kelly's reaction when or if she found out?

I have no desire to listen to him,' he said flatly. 'My hand is itching to stab him through the heart, with him lying there looking at me. It's all I can do to restrain myself. And if he opens his mouth, I know I won't be able to hold back. I haven't told you everything.

During his life, the witcher had met thieves who looked like town councilors, councilors who looked like beggars, harlots who looked like princesses, princesses who looked like calving cows and kings who looked like thieves. But Stregobor always looked as, according to every rule and notion, a wizard should look.

If Geralt was pleased about anything, it was only that nobody could see him – for it was a truly ridiculous sight.

I have sharp teeth inside my mouth, Inside my dark red lips, And lacquer slickly hides the claws In my red fingertips. So I conceal my armoury. Yours is all on view. You think you are possessing me- But I've got my teeth in you.

as if your essence were hung up in a closet like a dress too good to be worn and you were reduced to going out in only your appearance.

all white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be seen or touched