Secrets Quotes
You know I'm no squealer, Harry.''You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever ta...
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Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I fe...
Show MoreSometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a...
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With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each...
Show MoreNever, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a...
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For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yoursel...
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that ...
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicte...
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Secrets are worth more than silver and sapphires.

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the mome...
Show MoreThe Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of governme...
Show MoreWhen in doubt go the library

Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out oftheir way to march ahead of Har...
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And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be need...
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Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: t...
Show MoreYou have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.
There are secrets in all families, you know.

And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical...
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There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.
These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves
What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be a...
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I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be a...
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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
Both agreed that to find any sense in life it was pointless to search in the places where people wer...
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You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You h...
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I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people ag...
Show MoreThere comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so ...
Show MoreIt would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of...
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From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are s...
Show MoreThere's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that ...
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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...
Show MoreAuthorities this broad give the national security bureaucracy the power to scrutinize the personal l...
Show MoreFor those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance autho...
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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