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That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card tric...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a visio...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Sleep is often denied to those with secrets.

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Stephen KingThe Eyes of the Dragon

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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Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees

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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Sylvia PlathThe Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Obi-Wan's young face clouded. "Some secrets are best left concealed, Master." He shook his head. "Be...

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Terry BrooksStar Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace

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...

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Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be heal...

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I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habi...

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space b...

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

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You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't...

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I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habi...

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Nothing 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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Willa CatherAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

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

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William HazlittEssays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited

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...

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There 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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Alice MunroThe Moons of Jupiter

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women ther...

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

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Andrei CodrescuZombification: Stories from National Public Radio

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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Andrei CodrescuZombification: Stories from National Public Radio

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...

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It seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

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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Anthony TrollopeFramley Parsonage

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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Anton ChekhovThe Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories

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...

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I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

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

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Benjamin FranklinPoor Richard's Almanack

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.