Quotes About Concealment

Sneakiness was a form of privacy and privacy here was the first loss.

There are 2 ways of crying-on the outside or from the inside-and I've been crying on the inside most of my life.

Puck said the shittier the hotel, the less likely it was anyone would remember us. By that logic, we were now perfectly safe.

sometimes the nastiest shit happens behind the prettiest doors, while everyone laughs and smiles and pretends everything's okay. Here's the thing about my world. We're fucked up. We own it. We take care of business and move on.

I swear to you, sometimes the nastiest shit happens behind the prettiest doors, while everyone laughs and smiles and pretends everything's okay. Here's the thing about my world. We're fucked up. We own it. We take care of business and move on.

P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.

The fig tree grows its flowers strangely inside out, concealed within the soft interior of the fruit. Erszébet imagines the fig's hidden fairy weight of seeds, grown in sweetness that is also a darkness. Like treasure in a cave.

A look of fury, a look of pain, a look of hatred you can trust. A smile can hide anything.

A man doesn't put on a mask unless he's got some dark work in mind.

If you could kill a man by frowning at his back, the Breaker of Swords would have fallen bloody through the Last Door that day, but a frown is no blade, and Thorn's hatred cut no one but her.

Letting a cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it back.

Heroin is a stand-in, a stop-gap, a mask, for what we believe is missing. Like the "objects" seen by Plato's man in a cave, dope is the shadow cast by cultural movements we can't see directly.

It feels unkind that they are shoving their emotions at him when his own sadness and fear are so vast that he has to hide from them.

I like your mom a lot," Carrie had said, "but anyone that dresses and does their hair as carefully as your mom does every single day is unhappy on the inside. She's trying to hide all her messiness, and I want better than that for you.

The loved idea of Angelo still rose upon my fancy, and its powers of captivation, heightened by absence, and, perhaps even by despair, pursued me with incessant grief. I concealed in silence the anguish that preyed upon my heart, and resigned myself a willing victim

Not that she could see, but it was unmistakable not to hear what he looked like.

People were crazy with pain and secrets.

Many people withdrew into what they called 'internal emigration'. They sheltered their secret inner lives in an attempt to keep something of themselves from the authorities.

Niemand fragt, was in dieser Nacht auf allen Straßen, in allen Winkeln und entlegenen Wäldern im ganzen Land geschiet. Es ist eine Nacht ohne Gesetz. Es gibt kein Verbrechen, weil es keine Ankläger gibt. Es gibt keine Untat, denn keiner fordert Rechenschaft. Niemand hört, niemand sieht. Die Nacht hält sich die Ohren zu. Die Nacht macht sich im Dunkeln blind. Es wird nicht Morgen. Es dämmert nicht. Es wird nicht Tag.

I was about to become the world's best-kept secret; one that would never be told. What a thrilling enigma for posterity I should be!

I want to be a word. I would be abstract with an inscrutable ending.

Such lies were a lot better, less hurtful than the truth would have been.

Hard to hide a weapon after you've shot yourself in the head.

Sometimes I think her chest is made of ice, and she has to stay emotionally cold to hide the smell of a roting heart.