Quotes About Hidden

I loathe the happiness of all these people who don't know they're unhappy.

I'll show you." He ran upstairs and got the notebook. "It's Gramps's Book of Secrets.

Shame, and its offspring, secrecy. The

The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome and the linkage between effect and cause is hidden from us.

The Slimeballs Whose Names Should Not Be Mentioned but I'll Do It Anyway. The Massa.

For instance, if we gaze deeply at the deceptively simple word opportunity, we have a chance to see hidden beauty shining from below, which is the Roman god Portunus, patron of harbors. Seen in this light every new circumstance is like sailing into a strange and distant port, which may offer a haven, if we choose to take refuge.

I am warm on the outside, what people see. Warm eyes, warm face, warm fucking fake smile, but inside I am cold all the time, and full of lies. I am not what I seem to be; I am awful.

God's M.O., he reflected, is to transmute evil into good. If He is active here, He is doing that now, although our eyes can't perceive it; the process lies hidden beneath the surface of reality, and emerges only later. To, perhaps, our waiting heirs. Paltry people who will not know the dreadful war we've gone through, and the losses we took, unless in some footnote in a minor history book they catch a notion. Some brief mention. With no list of the fallen.

One of God's greatest mercies is that he keeps us perpetually occluded.

Ze zijn ingetogen in hun kleding, en hebben de houding van panters. Jij kunt dat. Je doet het al, alleen weet je het niet. - Farder Coram tegen Lyra

I kept waiting for him to lay bare something more than this pointed unobjectionableness, but all that rose to the surface was more surface

It's a private thing, that even if it wasn't, I wouldn't talk about it because it makes people uncomfortable to know I have a super-power. That's what Jamie calls it. A super-power. I still call it the noise.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

The properties of an object are automatically exposed, whereas the variables in a closure are automatically hidden.

The association of magic and cryptology was reinforced by other factors. Mysterious symbols were used in such esoteric fields as astrology and alchemy—where each planet and chemical had a special sign, like the circle and arrow for Mars—just as they were in cryptology. Like words in cipher, spells and incantations, such as "abracadabra," looked like nonsense but in reality were potent with hidden meanings.

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

You can be naked with someone and remain unknowable. You can be someone's secret without ever knowing what the full secret is. You can know he's even more scared than you are, but that doesn't make you any less scared yourself.

I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

He's just a friend, we'd argue. But if he was just a friend, why was he hidden, why were we so upset to have him discovered?

She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.

All along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. But now you find that it's the key.

the history is there, but it's not visible.

I'm not Justin. Even if she doesn't know it.

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it. That is, she wants Justin to see it. And it's there, just out of my reach. A sound waiting to be a word.