Quotes on concealment

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

William Shakespeare

“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”

Criss Jami

“Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.”

Alasdair Gray

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do.

Bernhard Schlink