Quotes About Concealment

That was the problem with crowing too loudly. You gave away your position and made yourself vulnerable.

Jesus not only revealed himself, he hid himself at the same time.

Best place to hide was in a crowd.

Because Rakkim knew the seduction of hiding in plain sight. The singular pleasure of blending into the background, of setting the table in the house of the enemy and watching him eat dinner.

If one's enemies know where you are, no matter how well protected you are, you can be gotten.

Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.

Strike knew how deeply ingrained was the belief that the evil conceal their dangerous predilections for violence and domination. When they wear them like bangles for all to see, the gullible populace laughs, calls it a pose, or finds it strangely attractive.

Strike teringat kata Adler, "Kebohongan tidak akan masuk akal, kecuali kebenaran mengandung bahaya yang setara.

As long as you don't have to see it, all good, eh?

While he took care never to let her see him, Strike doubted that her hollow eyes would retain much of an impression even if he had moved into plain view. They had become shuttered, full of inner darkness, no longer taking in the outside world.

Her hair stood back on either side A face bereft of loveliness. It had no envy now to hide What once no man on earth could guess. It formed the thorny aureole Of hard unsanctified distress. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge The Other Side of a Mirror

He'd also learned the value of concealing personal information, and of editing the stories you told about yourself, to avoid becoming entangled in other people's notions of who you must be.

She raised a hand to her face purely for the purpose of hiding it. She felt suddenly and perilously close to tears.

I have forged me in sevenfold heats A shield from foes and lovers, And no one knows the heart that beats Beneath the shield that covers.

They parted with a wave, concealing from each other the slight smile that each wore once safely walking away, pleased to know that they would meet again in a few short hours, over curry and beer and Nick and Ilsa's.

withdrawn smugness of unexplained wealth.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

As Anteby and Chan point out, people who fear retribution from the powerful have long used invisibility as a protective cloak.

Negative silence is the silence of a man in pain. Negative silence tells you that you are being the "wrong" silent type. Your silence keeps you locked in and others locked out. Your loyalty to an image and to your silence demands a high price. The silent son makes his monthly payments loyally, but he's never paid up; the quieter he becomes, the more he owes.

They were good friends, though they would never understand what lay inside of her, would not understand even if she told them.

Later, concealment of pride in humility came to be recognized as a deliberate and useful tactic which Sophia—renamed Catherine—used when confronting crisis and danger. Threatened, she drew around herself a cloak of meekness, deference, and temporary submission.

Sometimes," Llry told Rowan, "to feign an opening, is to invite your opponent's disaster.

If you want to keep a big secret, disguise it as a boring and inconsequential secret rather then try to convince people it is not a secret at all.

It matters little that you are afraid if you manage to hide it. You are then at the edge of courage.