Quotes About Secrets

There are secret sins and found-out sins, and it is foolish to worry about the first until it becomes the second.

Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of our acts, real or imagined, and the secrets we keep about them.

Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved.

The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.

The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known—even by ourselves.

That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like the disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions.

There are family mysteries I cannot solve. There are family mysteries I am unwilling to solve.

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

After years of sleeping together, I still love to stay up late after you've passed into sleep so I can hear you say things you would never repeat when awake. It's like loving two people, each distinct and beautiful, as night from day as you from me, all of us together forming a continuous grace.

He'd been just like all of the other performers in the world. He'd wanted to be universally loved. He wasn't all that different from Victor, Thomas, or even Junior. They all got onstage and wanted the audience to believe in them. They all wanted the audience to throw their room keys, panties, confessions, flowers, and songs onstage. They wanted the audience to trust them with their secrets.

swore he told us not to slow dance with our skeletons.

Do Mom and Dad know you're dating a homicidal lunatic? (Madaug) No, and if you tell them, I'll superglue your fingertips to your keyboard. (Eric)

What's in that backpack, by the way? You're always guarding it like it holds national security secrets or something. (Tory) Dirty underwear. (Acheron)

In your palms, I've placed my life, my secrets. I give you freedom to leave me at any time. I'm not easy to love. No one ever has. All I ask is that you always keep your silence, if not for me, then for the families of the others you'd destroy. (Nykyrian)

You should have told them about him. (Artemis) Told them what, Artemis? Behave or the bitch-goddess will unleash her insane killer on you? (Acheron)

Guards! Take the bastard out and beat him! (Styxx) Tell me something, brother. What angers you most about me? The fact I share your face or the fact I know exactly what your best friend wants to do to you…and how often? Good to see you again, Lord Dorus, especially clothed. (Acheron)

I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)

Tory frowned at his backpack on the floor and the way he kept it within easy reach. What's in that backpack, by the way? You're always guarding it like it holds national security secrets or something. Dirty underwear. She rolled her eyes. Thanks so much for that image. You asked.

There's no reason for you to know all that about me. My memories have never served good to anyone. (Acheron)

They have demons on Antarctica?" "Yeah," Ash breathed. "It wasn't always covered by ice, that was just a precaution when they buried them.

Tell me something, Adron. Sometime you've never shared with anyone else. Not even Thia. (Livia) I'm the one who glued Zarina to the toilet seat when she was seven. (Adron)

he broke her heart and made her crave his touch even while she was trying to figure out where to hide his body.

Now what other evil powers do you have that I should know about?" – Abigail "I can roll my tongue." – Sundown "I'm serious, Jess." – Abigail "So am I. Not everyone can do it. It's a genetic thing, you know." – Sundown

You've no idea...my tongue has been known to let blood on four continents. (Geary)