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In a later chapter, less argued over and less well-known, Teccam explains that there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart. Most secrets are secrets of the mouth. Gossip shared and small scandals whispered. These secrets long to be let loose upon the world. A secret of the mouth is like a stone in your boot. At first you’re barely aware of it. Then it grows irritating, then intolerable. Secrets of the mouth grow larger the longer you keep them, swelling until they press against your lips. They fight to be let free. Secrets of the heart are different. They are private and painful, and we want nothing more than to hide them from the world. They do not swell and press against the mouth. They live in the heart, and the longer they are kept, the heavier they become.

Patrick Rothfuss

Reading to me has always been like having a conversation with people who wouldn’t ask me any personal questions. Instead, they open up their own hearts and tell their secrets to me.

Marina Simcoe

The most beautiful thing about the world is how much is unknown to us. There are so many secrets, Hawthorn. So much awaiting discovery. We are merely dust motes in the vastness of the universe.

Chelsea Sedoti

The hardest secret to keep is one you don't know you have

Marty Rubin

Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.

Katherine Rundell

We live in a culture of secrecy, where hiding and lying are accepted as natural, even though we don’t like it. We want honesty, transparency, and authenticity in our loved ones, our groups and organizations, and in our own self so we can reach the heights of our capacity. By clinging to the opaque reality we stall our evolution.

Penney Peirce

Our bodies won't have secrets now.

André Aciman

Secrets are like bullets. Ditto the dark, personal stuff. Folks say they'll take'em off yer hands, share the burden, but really they just load 'em into their own weapons so they can use 'em against you later.

Erin Bowman

Most of us knew things that we didn't even want to confess to ourselves, so we took those secrets with us like condoms, stuffed in wallets, that would never be used.

David Joy

When in doubt go the library

J.K. Rowling

Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire for revelation. The truth within us has a way of coming out despite all conscious efforts to conceal it. I have heard stories from those in the generation after the war, all speaking of the same struggle to ferret truth from the silence of their parents so that they themselves could begin to live.

Susan Griffin

And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.

Joseph Conrad

...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.

Robert Galbraith

To know aberrations is to become involved with them.

NisiOisiN

Go figure, that happened to be his same style of flirtation as well—annoy her half to death until, before she could stop herself, she confessed her deep darks and bonded with him to a degree she never had before.

Katherine McIntyre

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

L.M. Montgomery

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

Sherman Alexie

To know a man’s secrets is to discover his weakness, and thus control his will

Jeremy Aldana

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Vera Nazarian

Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.

Scarlett Dawn

He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

Kim Edwards

What kind of woman tells all her secrets?” my mother continued, flabbergasted and disappointed in me. “Especially anything that has to do with your body making babies! I know a woman who had no ovaries when she got married. Her husband found out only years later that they couldn’t have children. The two of them are happy together still; they live in a big house, and have a cute dog.

Inna Swinton

This secret-keeping business was not for me.

Liz Czukas

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

Michelle Moran

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

Jodi Picoult

Sarah wonders if whatever secrets Grace is protecting feel the same as her own, sometimes just fuzzy and ticklish, like a littler of kittens trying to climb and paw their way out, and sometimes with claws bared, kittens grown to tigers, camouflaged but always ready to spring.

Beth Neff

It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

Catherynne M. Valente

Time after time, I have seen secrets tear people apart.

Alys Arden

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

Louisa May Alcott

I know what it's like to have secrets. Ones that are way traumatic. Ones that are so awful you can't tell anybody, even though you're dying to. So I'm not going to talk about this with anyone. It's the right thing to do. Karma and all.

Susane Colasanti

People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.

J. Robert Lennon

Secrets. Everyone has them. The light of day and truth reveal some secrets to be nagging obsessions or habits, while other secrets may be as incriminating as a literal decaying skeleton in one’s closet.

Kenn Bivins

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.

Andrei Codrescu

The fact is we all know that there exists in the world an order different from that in which we pass our days. If we reveal its existence people think that we are crazy.

Andrei Codrescu

We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

There are marvelous sea creatures whose existences can be viewed only within the deep blue sea, and similarly we all have dear secrets that can be spoken only in the habitat of the heart.

Alexandra Katehakis

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

Jean de La Fontaine

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.

Kenneth Grahame

We can always find each other, we girls with secrets.

Crystal Renn

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.

James Richardson

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

Louisa May Alcott

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

Eugene O'Neill

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

John Updike

Secrets aren't secret. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited.

Stephen White

The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can be worth more than a secret told.

Anna Godbersen

Maybe all of us at Hailsam had little secrets like that -- little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone without fears and longing.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, "Because I had to." The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to.

Margaret George

The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by their blissful ignorance to ask the right questions. When you have all of the answers, but are unable to ask any questions to them, then all you have are secrets.

Lionel Suggs

If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right?" His father laughed but didn't answer.

Robert Liparulo

I do not tell her about how much I look forward to going to the Wright barn. How those couple of hours in his studio feel like an escape, a refuge. Nor do I tell Rachel that I think Damian has the most beautiful hands I've ever seen, that he walks like a cat, that he has the clearest eyes, which seem able to see absolutely everything about me. That he seems to be the loneliest person I've ever met, and it breaks my heart. All of these things feel private. Precious. And I don't want to share them with Rachel. Not yet, anyway.

Lisa Ann Sandell

Have you ever done something that you were really ashamed of? I mean somehing so bad you felt sick just thinking about it?''Everyone has. Why, what'd you do?''I didn't say goodbye to Mum.''That's not so bad.''Did you say goodbye to your mum before she left?' I'd never asked Martin about this before. I didn't want to hear the answer.'She left before I had a chance.''Oh.''That's what I like about you, Faltrain.You always know just what to say.

Cath Crowley

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

E.L. Konigsburg

A secret spoken finds wings.

Robert Jordan

It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

The secret must stay and- according to scientists- the love will live. The heart is quite comfortable with secrets. After all, its home is a dark wet place tucked in among all the other organs who aren't talking either.

Toby Barlow

Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

Delphine de Vigan

We are bound by the secrets we share.

Zoë Heller

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.

Guillaume Musso

There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again there are certain things he will not divulge even to his friends; he will divulge them perhaps only to himself, and that, too, as a secret. But, finally, there are things which he is afraid to divulge even to himself, and every decent man has quite an accumulation of such things in his mind. I can put it even this way: the more decent a man is, the larger will the number of such things be.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Nothing Stays Secret Forever

Jennifer R. Hubbard

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