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Quotes About Secrets

Jesse sat low in the chair with his boots kicked out, drew off the soft red cap by its cotton ball, then reached out and snuggled Tim close to his chest. He said, "Let me tell you a secret, son: there's always a mean old wolf in Grandma's bed, and a worm inside the apple. There's always a daddy inside the Santa suit. It's a world of trickery.
~ Ron Hansen
When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.
~ Ron Suskind
She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night.
~ Rona Jaffe
We know so many things that remain out of sight
~ Ronald Everett Capps
We stayed away from the fact of Lark's existence, or anything to do with our actual thoughts.
~ Louise Erdrich
But now he was losing confidence and control. His paintings were hiding from him because Irene was hiding something.
~ Louise Erdrich
WHEN I GROW UP I'M GOING TO FIND OUT EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYBODY AND PUT IT ALL IN A BOOK. THE BOOK IS GOING TO BE CALLED SECRETS BY HARRIET M. WELSCH. I WILL ALSO HAVE PHOTOGRAPHS IN IT AND MAYBE SOME MEDICAL CHARTS IF I CAN GET THEM.
~ Louise Fitzhugh
Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Priests know how to bury the worst scandals.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Al cabo del tiempo, le resultaron tan insoportables los desolados intervalos del día, que empezó a procurarse drogas a fin de aumentar sus períodos de sueño. El hachís le ayudó enormemente, y en una ocasión le trasladó a una región del espacio donde no existen las formas, pero los gases incandescentes estudian los secretos de la existencia. Y un gas violeta le dijo que esta parte del espacio estaba al exterior de lo que él llamaba el infinito.
~ Lovecraft, H. P.
De Herbert West, que fora o meu amigo durante os anos de universidade e tamén fóra dela, tan só podía falar cun intensi terror.
~ Lovecraft, H.P.
She was the girl with her finger in the dike," she said. "Little did anyone know that when she removed it, all hell was going to break loose.
~ Lowell Cauffiel
Well, I left him in my room so my mother wouldn't see him." " 'Cause you hadn't convinced her to let you keep him yet," Mark said reasonably. "Did you leave the cats to keep him company?" "Yes," Augusta said. "And did they become best friends?" Maripat asked, happily sensing the end of the story. "No," Augusta said, knowing she was in too deep. "He ate them.
~ Luanne Rice
The secrets of Newport, Clea thought. The way money and power could buy a way out of any trouble and into someone else's fortune. All that was really necessary was luck and a complete lack of conscience.
~ Luanne Rice
they hide their secrets. Like all great stories, Last Day is a compulsive, twisting mystery dwelling inside a searing portrait of what drives us, as riveting as it is human and true." —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger
~ Luanne Rice
else would I be hiding
~ Lucy Diamond
Dear Blubbo, How is it going? It is fine here. My sisters are fine. Mom is usual. Everything is regular in life except I am still seeing the burning skull heads. Yesterday Mom took me to Sears for school clothes. I told my sisters I could see the people's head bones. They said DO NOT tell Mom. A guy moved a trailer onto the empty lot by our house. His skull is spectacular, many colors glowing.
~ Lynda Barry
With hands that shook, Omri probed into the depths of the chest till he found the box-within-a-box-within-a-box.
~ Lynne Reid Banks
As much as I would enjoy such rumors spreading around about my . . . er . . . virility, ye probably, definitely, shouldn't say it to the other ladies," he decided. Evina nodded, but said, "Too late." "What?" he asked, aghast. Evina scowled at his dismay. "Well, what the devil do ye think we women talk about when ye men aren't around? The weather?
~ Lynsay Sands
That's all they discussed, those neighbors of my mother's: who had died; who was just about to drop dead; who was getting married to whom, so that they could have a miserable life together and then die.
~ M.A. Harper
You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.
~ Mackenzie Phillips
As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Then she wanted to tell them that Mary Paula had got herself hooked to a liar and deceiver in the international league. She wanted to say that she could tell them a story about their future brother-in-law and his deceptions that would make their pale greasy hair stand on end.
~ Maeve Binchy
She barely got to the bathroom basin in time to throw up. Louis and this girl, this girl whom he knew had been sent to his hotel by Lena.
~ Maeve Binchy