Quotes About Concealment

My sweet, hollow Dominicana will keep all of my secrets: she has no eyes, no lips, no mouth.

In the dark you can't see no THING but no THING can see you.

Once she was safely in the Unstable Potions and Partikular Poisons cupboard,

Sometimes when you solve one Mystery, you find another one lurking underneath - a hidden Mystery that you did not suspect at all.

Nee, Nick, het is Ongezien, ongehoord, geen gefluister, niet een woord. En je moet het je ook voorstellen. Het heeft geen zin die spreuk af te raffelen als een demente papegaai. - Septimus

She had been unprepared for old age to render her so harmless. It was as if her sins had been wiped away, leaving only concealment in their place.

Perez thought he was stupid to believe that Catherine had been killed because she'd filmed some secret. So little in Shetland was secret. It was simply unacknowledged. There was something Victorian in this need to put on a good show.

He'd been obsessed with dying when he was a small boy. He'd banged his head against the pillow in an attempt to drive away the thoughts. How was it possible not to exist? How could he not exist? As a teenager, the preoccupation was still there, but he'd hidden it more skilfully, turning the obsession into an intellectual pose, a cloak to hide his real terror.

She loved her parents – of course she did – but when they were with her, she had to put on a show.

Mice are everywhere at Westminster but many MPs, including me, did not report them because we were afraid of their possible fate.

It was a shock to everyone when I became a rapper. Huge shock to everyone. But I knew it all along. I just didn't want to tell anybody cause then it's like, What if it doesn't work?

There's a lot of people out here faking a smile on their face like they got it together but inside actually suffering from some sort of traumatic experience, a loss, depressed, fearful, envious or whatever the case may be, but I can feel it.

I love being in disguise whenever I go to the mall.

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Which is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be in a particular place but that unlike them it will be and not be where it is, wherever it goes.

If I'm out shopping, in Topshop or wherever, I'm never spotted. In fact, I'm usually asked if I have a student card. No-one seems to notice me, they're oblivious to who I am even in Scotland, and I'm very happy to be able to blend in with the crowd.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.

I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause.

There's nowhere in London where you can use a whip without getting too much attention.

I'm whispering so that the media doesn't hear me.

When hearing aids were first mentioned, I pictured myself as that old geezer at the back of the church with the whistling ear trumpet, but you can't see these Phonak hearing aids, and people don't realise you've got them in.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.