Quotes About Concealment

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

It was part of their mission as a secret society--as it is part of the mission of most secret societies, actually--to not be entirely secret.

the best way to avoid having your heart broken was to pretend you don't have one.

Most secret societies—at least those you can read about in books or on the Internet—are collegiate. Or adult... They are like fraternities, only they don't have houses or public identities. In colleges, their members are usually local, not national, but the adult ones tend to be more serious and on a larger scale. We don't actually know what they do. Because they're secret.

You feel like you know me, Cady, but you only know the me who comes here," he says. "It's--it's just not the whole picture. You don't know my bedroom with the window onto the airshaft, my mom's curry, the guys from school, the way we celebrate holidays. You only know me on this island...

Her veins were never open. He heart never leapt out to flop helplessly on the lawn. She never melted in puddles. She was normal. Always. At any cost.

WELCOME TO THE beautiful Sinclair family. No one is a criminal. No one is an addict. No one is a failure. The Sinclairs are athletic,

Wisdom disguises our wounds: it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

She had deemed it unwise to reveal her soul.

Okuyucunun "Genç k?z Emerson'u seviyor" diye bir sonuca varmas? için her ÅŸey aç?kça ortada. EÄŸer okuyucu Lucy'nin yerinde olsayd?, durum bu kadar aç?k olmayacakt?. Hayat? yaÅŸad?ktan sonra yazmak kolayd?r, ama bizzat yaÅŸamak sersemleticidir ve arzular?m?z? gözden gizleyecek "sinir bozukluÄŸu" veya herhangi bir baÅŸka bahaneyi sevinçle kar??lar?z.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

Nonsense of this type is more difficult to combat than a solid lie. It hides in rubbish heaps and moves when no one is looking.

She was like a woman of Leonardo Da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.

She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.

We have morals and behaviour also, and I don't think this continual secrecy improves them.

Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

Things we conceal from others are insecurities that we are ashamed to admit, feelings and impulses we consider to be anti-social or inconsistent with our self-image, memories of events where we failed or performed badly against our own standards, and, most important, reactions to other people that we judge would be impolite or hurtful to reveal to their face.

Mao Tse. Leigh tried to push away the horrible thoughts swimming in her head. Mao Tse was fine. She was just hiding. No one wanted to hurt her. They wanted something else.

He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got,Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

The most dangerous stories are the ones that never get told.