Hiding Quotes - Page 16

• all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Television, World

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.92, Dial Press

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• There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding.

  Julia Golding

  Men, Mythical Creatures, Ran

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• I was just kidding, shuck-face," Minho said. "Let's all go over there. She could have an army of psycho girl ninjas hiding in that shack of hers." "Psycho girl ninjas?" Newt repeated, his voice showing he was surprised, if not annoyed, by Minho's additude.

  James Dashner

  Girl, Army, Voice

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Series Complete Collection (Maze Runner)”, p.457, Delacorte Press

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• What are you doing here " "Hiding with you

  Lynsay Sands

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• You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.

  Marie Lu

  Running, Brother, Lying

  Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.45, Penguin

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• Hey, its not much of a closet is it?" "No. Its not. I don't like closets. Life's to short to spend hiding in the dark.

  Josh Lanyon

  Dark, Hey, Closets

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• When I caught up, I grabbed Jack’s arm. “What are you doing here?” “Hiding! That’s how you play the game, right? I thought the title hide-and-seek was fairly self-explanatory. Then again, you are blond.” “So are you, idiot. Again, what are you doing here?

  Kiersten White

  Self, Games, Play

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• It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn’t think you could stand it, but then you plunged in and pretty soon you got used to it. There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.

  Lev Grossman

  Thinking, Water, Scary

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.575, Penguin

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• 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

  Tired, Hypocrisy, Acting

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• No, she knows you're here. She can see through the camouflage. But I think she's hiding something from me, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. Never mind. Just listen. Once she drinks the tea, she will try ot surprise me with something. She is waiting for the contrast to be fully in effect before she says anything. I knew I never should have let you watch The Wizard of Oz.

  Kevin Hearne

  Thinking, Hiding Something, Should Have

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• As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

  David Mitchell

  Moving, Men, Glimpse

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• We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did you peter out bit by bit? When did you stop having parties? Did everyone else get old too, or was it just you? Are other people still here, hiding in the palm trees or holding their breath underwater? When did you last swim your laps? Do your bones hurt? Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?

  Jennifer Egan

  Hurt, Party, People

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.65, Anchor

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• Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?" - Eric, club dead.

  Charlaine Harris

  Thinking, Giving, Eric

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.161, Penguin

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• Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld Éowyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she was now suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Morning, Kings

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Disappointment, Firsts, Married

  "Dollhouse (A Spy in the House of Love)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009–2010.

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• The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Flower, Heart, Dust

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• Christian stretched out beside her and pulled her close. ʺBut for what itʹs worth, I think youʹd be a great queen too, Princess Dragomir.ʺ ʺYouʹre going to get dirty,ʺ she warned. ʺAlready am. Oh, you mean from your clothes?ʺ He wrapped his arms around her, heedless of her damp and muddy state. ʺI spent most of my childhood hiding in a dusty attic and own exactly one dress shirt. You really think I care about this T-shirt?ʺ

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Queens, Dirty

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

  John Updike

  Pain, Writing, Honey

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Feb 22, 2013

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• I would tell them that when you look at a person, you never know what the're hiding.

  Jodi Picoult

  Looks, Persons, Knows

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• It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Lying, Believe, Long

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Hard Love”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  People, Knack, Illusion

  Erich Segal (2015). “Doctors: A Novel”, p.424, Bantam

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• You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.

  Megan McCafferty

  Falling In Love, Love You, Artist

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.1018, Crown

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• Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

  Dan Brown

  Language, Hiding The Truth, Adept

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• Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows — maybe even tomorrow.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Crazy, Fall

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 30, 2015

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• it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding all your life. you try to push it away, because you think you've hammered out the whole timeline of your life, but then you see that one extra moment, and suddendly you are breaking apart what you though was a solid segment, and seeing it for what it is: just a string of events, shoulder to shoulder, and a gap where there is room for one more.

  Jodi Picoult

  Memories, Crazy, Thinking

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