Secrets Quotes - Page 7

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.

Mira Bartok

She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.

Khaled Hosseini

You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

Don DeLillo

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

George Orwell

Secrets are like plants. They can stay buried deep in the earth for a long time, but eventually they'll send up shoots and give themselves away. They have to. It's their nature. Just a tiny green stem at first. Which slowly, insidiously grows taller, stronger, unfolding itself, until there it is. A big fat secret, right in front of your face; a fully bloomed flower perfumed with the scent of deception.

Judy Reene Singer

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.

Donna Jo Napoli

There is very seldom any true secret.

Diana Wynne Jones

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

John Barrymore

The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago.

Erin Hunter

You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

Moira J. Moore

Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.

Alice Munro

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

Kate Chopin

For the righteous, the revelation is a joyous event, the realization of a divine truth. But for the wicked, revelations can be far more terrifying, when dark secrets are exposed and sinners are punished for their trespasses.

Emily Thorne

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

Sebastian Barry

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

Philip Roth

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

Cecelia Ahern

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

Lemony Snicket

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.

Carolyn Parkhurst

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

Joe Hill

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

Robin Sloan

Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

Pseudonymous Bosch

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.

Cormac McCarthy

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

Kate Morton

THE LUXE IS . . .Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn.Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.This is Manhattan in 1899.

Anna Godbersen

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

Ann Aguirre

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

Brian Andreas

Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.

Daisy Whitney

I know a secret,and secrets breed paranoia.

Simon Holt

Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

Candace Bushnell

He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.

Anton Chekhov

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

William Gibson

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.

Jean Ferris

The hell with your secrets,” shouted Bonnie.“Language, language! How about this: One of you has kept a secret alltheir life, and is doing so even now. One of you is a murderer—and I amnot speaking of a vampire, or a mercy killing, or anything like that. Andthen there is the question of the true identity of Sage—good luck on yourresearch there!One of you has already had their memory erased—and I don’t meanDamon or Stefan. And what about the secret, stolen kiss? And then there isthe question of what happened the night of the motel, that it seems that nobodybut Elena can recall. You might ask her sometime about her theories aboutCamelot.

L.J. Smith

But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting.

CLAMP

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

Benjamin Franklin

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

Sylvia Plath

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

George Orwell

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

Michelle Hodkin

Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out oftheir way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, "Make way forthe Heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through ......Percy was deeply disapproving of this behavior."It is not a laughing matter," he said coldly."Oh, get out of the way, Percy," said Fred. "Harry's in a hurry.""Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fangedservant," said George, chortling.Ginny didn't find it amusing either."Oh, don't," she wailed every time Fred asked Harry loudly who he wasplanning to attack next, or when George pretended to ward Harry off with a largeclove of garlic when they met.

J.K. Rowling

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

Margaret Atwood

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

Nicholas Sparks

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Veronica Roth

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

Kim Edwards

The best secrets are the most twisted

Sara Shepard

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

Fiona Apple

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

Jennifer E. Smith

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

Stephenie Meyer

Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

Leila Sales

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Alice Munro

Each tear being shed holds a thousand pounds of truth.

Audrey Regan

Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

Joan Lindsay

The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night.

Marty Rubin

All the best secrets are told at night.

Mark Lawrence

As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.

Bessel A. van der Kolk

Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth is my sexuality. I'm dirty and shameful. I have no right to my own physical boundaries.' That shapes their ideas about the world around them: 'No one will believe me. Telling the truth results in bad consequences. People can't be trusted.' It doesn't take long for children to being to act in accordance with these belief systems.For girls who have experienced incest, sexual abuse, or rape, the boundaries between love, sex, and pain become blurred. Secrets are normal, and shame is a constant.

Rachel Lloyd

He wanted to know something about me. I leaned over and put my mouth to his ear. It was barely a whisper.'I'm a murderer.

Ruta Sepetys

And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?

J.K. Rowling

He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.

Laura Anderson Kurk

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