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Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm p

In the end, it's only a story of having had her words and secrets, her confidences, turned against h...

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We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

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

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Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Shadow of the Wind

What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?”The tape gun fell out of Luke’s hand, ...

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Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave on...

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He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, a...

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We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.

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Cees Nooteboom's Nachts komen de vossen

All their lives Nath had understood, better than anyone, the lexicon of their family, the things the...

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Celeste NgEverything I Never Told You

They meet again at dinner--again, next day-- again, for many days in succession. Lady Dedlock is alw...

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Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think...

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It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quit...

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And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...

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Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, whic...

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I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and th...

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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...

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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...

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I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the botto...

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Secrets,” Kohler finally said, “are a luxury we can no longer afford.

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the direc...

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This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice he...

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If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each...

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Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them...

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There is very seldom any true secret.

Secrets are an exalted state, almost a dream state. They're a way of arresting motion, stopping the ...

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

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I'm always asked, 'What's the secret to success?' But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. An...

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She paused a moment."Pepino, shall I tell all our dear friends our little secret?" she said. "If you...

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In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessiona...

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There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wri...

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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.

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Eugene O'NeillThe Emperor Jones

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I fe...

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Sometimes 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...

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Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a...

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George MacDonaldThe Complete Works of George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin

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...

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The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of governme...

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When in doubt go the library

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out oftheir way to march ahead of Har...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be need...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: t...

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You 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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John BergerHere Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths

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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John FowlesThe French Lieutenant's Woman

I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people ag...

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There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so ...

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It 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...

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There'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...

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And 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 ...

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There 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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Joyce Carol OatesTwo or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of c...

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Kate ChopinThe Awakening

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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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

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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Maggie StiefvaterThe Dream Thieves

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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Maggie StiefvaterThe Dream Thieves

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.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Blind Assassin

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 ...

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Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destructi...

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Michael ChabonMaps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands

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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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

I used to get into bed with my mother every morning, almost until she died, and talk about everythin...

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A funeral is no place for secrets.