“An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.”
“So elves could be walking around in our midst, disguised as normal, everyday, vertically challenged citizens.”
“The normality of the house terrified her: the gleaming surfaces, the tidiness, the homey touches, the sense that a person lived here who might walk in daylight on any street and pass for human in spite of the atrocities that he had committed.”
“The thing is', (Rufus) Stone said, 'that if you don't believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the part is just the surface; being the part is the true disguise.”
“Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.”
“Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.”