Quotes About Hidden

Anyone who learns the true and hidden nature of the world will be terrified, Oddie, but there's a safe harbor past the terror.

and women merely because of the way that they treated us. They had anxieties we could never understand. He said that we of the hidden had our burdens, but those who lived in the open carried far heavier burdens than ours, which was true.

She understood at least as well as I did what corruption and pitiless cruelty might be hidden behind the masks that some people wore.

You play everything so close to your vest, it's like your entire life is one long poker hand.

He says, "You have a fox in there.

Treat the study as if we're in a Daphne du Maurier novel, as if this house is an alternate-universe version of Manderley, and I am keeping either the murdered and mummified corpse of Rebecca or Mrs. Danvers—or both!—behind that locked door, to spare myself from a long prison sentence.

In life, deep and terrible secrets are usually revealed not when you're searching for them, but when you least expect them and are unprepared.

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she, too, lived behind a brick wall, only hers was cleverly hidden behind a bright smile and effervescent personality.

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

Their mystique comes from the fact that, once upon a time, someone cared enough to hide them.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve . . . —Unknown

Maybe the truth can't be buried. Or maybe it can't stay buried. Maybe the very nature of truth is that it will ultimately reveal itself.

Everything they did was a secret, especially from each other.

Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

ROOM FOR SECRETS

I think all parents have a double life.

A secret is powerful when it is empty.

Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don't because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn't look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

Not everyone wears their scars on their skin.

First, the future event must already exist in some way we do not understand. Second, if it exists, then it is part of some kind of hidden psychic agenda. The third factor requires that some function of human consciousness be able to link into this plan to perceive it. If we try to be psychic, and at the same time believe that a future planned agenda does not already exist in some form, then, of course, we are going to shoot ourselves in our psychic feet.

Important events — whether serious, happy or unfortunate — do not change a man's soul, they merely bring it into relief, just as a strong gust of wind reveals the true shape of a tree when it blows off all its leaves. Such events highlight what is hidden in the shadows, they nudge the spirit towards a place where it can flourish.

A dimple in the chin a devil within.

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.