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Quotes About Secrets

The best things happen in the dark.
~ John Cameron Mitchell
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
~ Andre Malraux
Concealers are like undergarments. They make you feel taller and thinner.
~ Bobbi Brown
I excelled in finding and acquiring secret information that I obtained in brush passes, dead drops, or in meetings in dusty alleys of third world capitals.
~ Gina Haspel
The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Night hath a thousand eyes.
~ John Lyly
Being in on the secret might be a lot of fun when you're a kid, but not so much once you realize how often life hinges on everyone agreeing--at least outwardly--on the same reality.
~ Rosemary Clement-Moore
I've spilled all my secrets. How do you make people do it?" "I don't. People like to talk about what's hurting them. It takes the edge off the pain sometimes.
~ Ross MacDonald
She looked up at the sun as if it were spying on her.
~ Ross MacDonald
I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time.
~ Ross Thomas
Referring to an event in an untold story is a powerful technique rarely used.
~ Roy H. Williams
Growing was only one of two serious matters that deeply bothered Travis; the second was his fear of the dark. How many 12-year-olds still needed a night-light? But most of the time, his fear of the dark was something he could keep to himself and his family, but how could you hide your size?
~ Roy MacGregor
The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them to reveal what you want to know.
~ Rudy Josephs
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!
~ Rumi
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.
~ Rumi
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
~ Rupert Brooke
if you have secrets, you must have a friend to share them with
~ Ruskin Bond
These great trees of the mountains, I feel they know me well, as I watch them & listen to their secrets, happy to rest my head beneath their outstretched arms.
~ Ruskin Bond
if you have secrets, you must have a friend to share them with, a companion of one's own age.
~ Ruskin Bond
The received truth of history is shot through and falsified by unknown secrets carried to the grave.
~ Russell Banks
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.
~ Russell Lynes
A girls heart is like a dark wood
~ Russian proverb
But I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm not going to send her back to her brother. Ever. She is my wife. She stays with me until the day she dies." Ethan's eyes lit up. "Ah, so you're planning to kill her.
~ Ruth Ann Nordin
What are these things that draw toward us, these visitors that hide among us
~ Ruth Stone