Quotes about hide
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“There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Fear

“There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.”

Amber Benson (1977) actress from the United States

Source: Accursed

Truth, World, Appearance, Night

“He is crooked enough to hide behind a spiral staircase.”

Anne McCaffrey book Acorna's Quest

Source: Acorna's Quest

“People like to say being gay isn't like skin color, isn't anything physical. They tell us we always have the option of hiding.
But if that's true, why do they always find us?”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

People, Color

“Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.”

Lawrence Durrell book Justine

Source: Justine

Pain, Art, Reality, Memory

“The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Beauty

“Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to.”

Scott Westerfeld book Afterworlds

Source: Afterworlds

Truth

“I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife
inside
because there was no alternative except to hide as long
as possible---
not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance:
trying to connect.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Chance, Hurt

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Feeling, Cats

“He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Strong

“God hides the fires of hell within paradise.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

God, Hell

“Antonio-
"Just in time, Pete. Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma."
Peter-
"Are we such bad company that you'd rather hide out in here reading that old thing?”

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

Source: Bitten

Time, Reading

“Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.”

Walker Percy book The Moviegoer

Source: The Moviegoer

Hope

“People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?”

Alice Hoffman book The Ice Queen

Source: The Ice Queen

People, World, Kiss, Nature

“One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Disappointment

“… sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.”

Michael Ondaatje book Divisadero

Source: Divisadero

Art, Personality

“You’re a wondering soul, looking for a peace that doesn’t exist. Lost you will be until you find the one inner truth. We can never hide from what we are. The only hope is to embrace it.’ (Old Seer)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Truth, Peace, Hope, Soul

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day. That was the business of hiding a Jew.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Variant: Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.
Source: The Book Thief

Smile, Imagination, Business, Thinking

“Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road

Variant: If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.
Source: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 12 : My People! My People!

“I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?”
“I’ve always been a stick-in-the-mud.” Her brother cast her a thin smile. “I just hid it beneath all the debauchery.”
She sniffed. “I wish you’d hide it again. It’s quite annoying.”

Sabrina Jeffries (1960) American writer

Source: How to Woo a Reluctant Lady

Smile

“Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Hell

“I can see his pain, see it in the way he runs his fingers through his hair, over and over, and I understand what it costs him to hide it all.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Pain, Way, Understanding

“I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

Love, Food

“You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Pain, Smile, Tear

“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.” Sara looked directly into his eyes. “If nothing else, you need to remember that. You can’t erase history, or change it. It would be like destroying yourself.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

History, Memory, Change

“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”

Jean Rhys book Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

“Children are dying."
Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”

Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates

Source: Deadhouse Gates

Children, World, History

“Hiding is for amateurs.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

“I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Source: My Story

Love, Making love, Color, Feeling

“When faced with the scariest of things, all you want to do is turn away, hide in your own invisible place. But you can't. That's why it's not only important for us to be seen, but to have someone to look for us, as well.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

“… she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Sense, Waiting

“People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

People, Truth, Learning, Parting

“Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.”

Melissa de la Cruz book Masquerade

Source: Masquerade

“Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

Pain, Way

“Phury?"
"No, I'm not gay."
"Don't feel like you need to hide it or anything."
"I wouldn't. I'm just not."
"You bi, then?”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Feeling

“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.”

Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer

Source: Drowning Instinct

People

“And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable… I simply am not there.”

Bret Easton Ellis (1964) American novelist

Feeling, Sense

“Gabrielle was insulted and didn't even bother to hide it. 'Oh, and I suppose you think your dad was alone when he free-climbed the Kyoto Banking Tower on a windy day last September.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Thinking

“People hide the truth because they're afraid.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

People, Truth

“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.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Truth, Girl, Time

“I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

Angels

“Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

“Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay, but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.”

Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
Source: Bartleby the Scrivener

Happiness, World, Light

“Small children are great accepters. They don’t understand shame, or the need to hide things.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining

Children, Understanding

“One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

People

“I love you,' Rachael said. 'If I entered a room and found a sofa covered with your hide I'd score very high on the Voigt-Kampff test.”

Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Love

“You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

Dogs, Home, Cats

“Hiding here, are you? That’s awkward.” “Why?” “Because I had intended to hide here myself.” “You may hide here with me, if you wish.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Queen of Everything

“Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bitter Blood

“It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.”

Rob Sheffield (1966) American music journalist

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape

“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Life, World, Time

“We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Chasing the Prophecy

Truth, Peace, Reality, Decision

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Sun

“You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo”

Mario Puzo The Godfather

Source: The Godfather

Men, Christ

“But all she wanted to do was lie in bed, eat Kraft macaroni and cheese, and hide from the alligators.”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Lie

“Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Light, Reading, Speed

“Taureans are stubborn as hell. Theywant to tell you what sign they are…. But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.”

Armistead Maupin (1944) American writer

Hell, Heart

“What are you doing here "
"Hiding with you”

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

Source: The Immortal Hunter

“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.”

Roald Dahl The BFG

Source: The BFG

World, Sleep, Night

“Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.”

Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol

Source: The Lost Symbol

Truth

“As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson book Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Night

“We each have our hiding places and we each put up with the little quirks of the people we love.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Love, People

“when I hide something, it stays hid, until I want it found.”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

“Keep calm and carry on.
Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

“I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard”

Richard Brautigan book Trout Fishing in America

Source: Trout Fishing in America

Birthday, Thinking

“How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

“Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Love, Soul, Cute, Powerful

“The ‘equilibrium’ that people see in me is really an illusion. I am as flawed as anyone. It’s only that I seem to have the knack of hiding.”

Erich Segal book Doctors

Source: Doctors

People

“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”

Pat Conroy book Beach Music

Source: Beach Music

Beauty, Music, Suffering, Hurt

“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

Source: The Holy Terrors

Heart

“There's nothing honerable in a man who hides behind a blue woman's hanky.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

“…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office

“Yeah, okay. But, Nico, youchoose how to live your life. You want to trust somebody? Maybe take a risk that I'm really your friend and I'll accept you. It's better than hiding.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Life

“Have you called the alphas?"

"Yes."

"The rats, too?"

He bristled. "What about the rats?"

"They think you're hiding information from them"

"I hide information from everyone. Do they think they're special?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Thinking

“That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Literature

“I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”

Alison Bechdel (1960) American cartoonist, author

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Death, Truth

“A jewel's just a rock put under enourmous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

People, Thinking

“Is it my imagination, or is there some kind of jealousy thing going on here?"-Inuyasha
(gives Inuyasha a really bad look)"It's your imagination."-Sango
(Inuyasha tries to hide behind Kagome)
"Whatever you say."-Kagome”

Rumiko Takahashi (1957) manga artist

Jealousy, Imagination

“It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!”

Jean Paul Sartre Dirty Hands

Jessica, Act 3, sc. 1
Dirty Hands (1948)

Children, Time

“You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”

Tracy Chevalier book Girl with a Pearl Earring

Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring

“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Source: Bernice Bobs Her Hair

People

“God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though--and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

God, Way, Success

“Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned.
'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.”

Malorie Blackman book Boys Don't Cry

Source: Boys Don't Cry

Men, Boy, Tear, Cry

“Omygod, I haven’t got years. I’ll have to hide in the Bat Cave.”
“Once you go to the Bat Cave it’s forever, babe.”
Eeek.”

Janet Evanovich Hard Eight

Source: Hard Eight

“Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

Light, Sun

“Tatiana realized she was too young to hide well what was in her heart but
old enough to know that her heart was in her eyes.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Heart

“The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.”

Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Angels

“That was the message. For me, alone among mortals, the gods send their messenger to tell me to stop whining. That’ll teach me to go hide in a temple.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Queen of Attolia

Source: The Queen of Attolia

God

“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Daniel Deronda (1876)
Source: Middlemarch

Help, Hurt

“Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

World

“SPENCER: Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.”

Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars

Source: Pretty Little Liars

Game

“There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Secret, World

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

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

Soul

“There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.”

Patricia A. McKillip The Book of Atrix Wolfe

Source: The Book of Atrix Wolfe

“Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.”

Richard Matheson book A Stir of Echoes

Source: A Stir of Echoes

World

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