Secrets Quotes
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are s...
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What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...
Show MoreAnd for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secret...
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These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those ...
Show MoreThere are some secrets so toxic you can’t share. Especially if you love who it is you’d have to shar...
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She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of c...
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Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin ...
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Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort o...
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She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful coll...
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It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.
Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind...
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All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockr...
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Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.

Because Niall Lynch was the biggest liar of them all, and he’d stuffed all of that into his eldest s...
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The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were ...
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Gansey knew enough people with secrets not to be dazzled into easily using them as currency.

It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.

Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a...
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But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were begin...
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The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwar...
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And if I talk to him, I'll say something wrong, give something away. I can feel it coming, a betraya...
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Emilio was certainly within his rights not to reveal the sordid details of his childhood even to his...
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… it is that such of us as have loved deeply have learnt many secrets that are unknown to others; fo...
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Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in ...
Show MoreLiterature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destructi...
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Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the thing...
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For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the ...
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I used to get into bed with my mother every morning, almost until she died, and talk about everythin...
Show MoreA funeral is no place for secrets.

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I ...
Show MoreHe had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own ...
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There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by utt...
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I need to know how you did it it. I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secre...
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I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.

easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret.

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I sh...
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of t...
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In a later chapter, less argued over and less well-known, Teccam explains that there are two types o...
Show MoreIt's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy.

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets ar...
Show MoreA secret spoken finds wings.

It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is c...
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Show MoreThat's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card tric...
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The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a visio...
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Sleep is often denied to those with secrets.

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.

You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you...
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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice comin...
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Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate ...
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But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at ...
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Obi-Wan's young face clouded. "Some secrets are best left concealed, Master." He shook his head. "Be...
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I have to ask, sir...Why does it have to be done like this?"Vetinari smiled. "Can you keep a secret,...
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When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret wi...
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But the secrets of such a book are not perpetual. Once they are known, they become relegated to a le...
Show MoreForgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be heal...
Show MoreI thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habi...
Show MoreI think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space b...
Show MoreI feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees ...
Show MoreYou don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't...
Show MoreI thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habi...
Show MoreNothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the gr...
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Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.'I like that idea. It's reassuring. I...
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Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult.
I know that's a secret for it's whispered everywhere.
Secrets...are the very root of cool.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me."Whatever was told to Zinat i...
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Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of ...
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A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.
If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness.
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms...
Show MoreThere is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-b...
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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women ther...
Show MoreOur secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with ...
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The fact is we all know that there exists in the world an order different from that in which we pass...
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet th...
Show MoreIt seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the...
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I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? Wha...
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He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of ...
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Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am I...
Show MoreI never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
