204 Quotes About Hiding

A man should never hide behind another for fear of punishment.

What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.

Tell me I’m crazy for thinking you’re holding back from me as much as I’m hiding you.

You see them in the mercurylight of water, the expandingorbs of silver where troutbreathe. You hearthem in the sleepy kissof rainfall on pineneedles, smell themas if they were snow to the west.

Most nights she went with the moon, and when it was round she stayed in my biggest bedroom and wouldn’t answer the thing that asked her to let it out(let you out from where?let me out from the small, the hot, the take me out of the fire i am ready i am hard like the stones you ate, bitter like those husks)the moonlight striped her, marked out places where the whispering thing would slip through and she would unfold.

Two tiny corpses, one male and the other female, rattle around that enormous closet in my bedroom. Though deceased, still they are quick enough to hide themselves whenever I need to enter the closet to retrieve something.

I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.

You're not hiding, but you're sitting in a gay bar at dinnertime. You're not hiding, but you're wearing that suit like it's armor.

Because Rakkim knew the seduction of hiding in plain sight. The singular pleasure of blending into the background, of setting the table in the house of the enemy and watching him eat dinner.