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Quotes About Hiding

He can't tell him about me, though," said Turtle. "Or if he does, Darkstalker won't hear it. My enchantment hides me completely from him." I hope. I hope I hope I hope. If I did it right. Which seems unlikely, knowing me. Ack. "That's clever," said Qibli. "How did you think of that?" "I used this brainstorming method called pure terror," Turtle admitted. "It wasn't so much clever as deeply cowardly.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
as thrilling as a child's game: the hiding, the secrets, the lies, the play-acting, the giggling satisfaction, the guilt, even the furtive sex itself.
~ Paul Theroux
The feeling that your daughter is a deviant already and will only get worse. In a flash, you can see her as a feral adolescent, as a dirty-bomb teenager, a burst of invisible and spreading fury. Where is she now? She's fled, not to her room but somewhere else, a closet, she always hides somewhere disturbing, a place befitting a German fairy tale. Believe
~ Dave Eggers
The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself
~ William Shakespeare
I looked up. I couldn't see him. He was hiding at the bottom of the boat. He appeared when he threw my mother's body overboard. His mouth was red. The water boiled with fish.
~ Yann Martel
You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
But just before she could move, Amon paused in the midst of a sequence, the staff horizontal in front of him, head cocked. He flipped the quarterstaff to a vertical position, turned and looked directly at where Raisa was hiding. "Rai?" he whispered.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Human beings mistakenly believed alcohol was a disguise that stopped real life from recognizing them. In fact, it was just a temporary hiding hole...
~ Unknown
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
~ Herodotus
The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.
~ Hiro Mashima
Despair... It hides away propagates, expands, and finally explodes
~ Unknown
Many times in his first nine years, Prince Cardan slept in the hay of the stables when his mother didn't want him in their suite of rooms. It was warm there, and he could pretend he was hiding, could pretend that someone was looking for him. Could pretend that when he was not found, it was only because the spot he'd chosen was so extremely clever.
~ Holly Black
I know the number of steps to the top of every spire. I know every corner that a child could hide in, every place she could be dragged out from.
~ Holly Black
It was warm there, and he could pretend he was hiding, could pretend that someone was looking for him.
~ Holly Black
you think it was sunrise I was waiting for and not my queen. Do you not hear her footfalls? She has never quite managed the trick of hiding them as well as one of the Folk. Surely you've heard of her, Jude Duarte, who defeated the redcap Grima Mog, who brought the Court of Teeth to their knees? She's forever getting me out of scrapes. Truly, I don't know what I would do without her.
~ Holly Black
Unless he turns his clothes inside out, which I am fairly confident he doesn't know to do, he'll never find us.
~ Holly Black
I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
I climbed the stairs and got back into bed, pulling a pillow over my face to block out the summer light. But there was no hiding from reality that morning.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
He picked up the biscuit box and said, Come on, Marlene. Back into hiding in case somebody comes looking for you, although only God knows why anybody would. Marlene? Nell said. I'm not calling anything SugarPie, Riley said. That's obscene.
~ Jennifer Crusie
And I pray, if there are ever two children who come visit my home here, that you will give them the courage to say shalom, so that they will know they do not have to remain in hiding. Amen
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.
~ Richard Siken
Acting is a subtle combination of hiding and revealing yourself, and as I'm not an extrovert, this is painful for me.
~ Sarah Lancashire
Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.
~ Unknown