Quotes About Secrets

There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.

I think that any time you share a secret, you're a little nervous about people's reaction to it.

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

People want to hear the gossip. They don't want to hear about the shots.

Some people will always gossip.

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

I'll take a secret to my grave. I'm really good at that.

I'm sure Zoe Ball and Donna Air, and Nic and Nat Appleton - we'll go to the grave with our '90s secrets.

I grew up with Bond.

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

I have walked in Death to the very precipice of the Ninth Gate, Abhorsen said quietly. I know the secrets and horrors of the Nine Precincts. I do not know what lies beyond, but everything that lives must go there, in the proper time. That is the rule that governs our work as the Abhorsen, but it also governs us. You are the fifty-third Abhorsen, Sabriel. I have not taught you as well as I should—let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

You know what they say: 'The cats and the owls and the better type of raven, know more of what is doing than any human maven.

Should have told you . . . betrayed . . . the Bile . . .

Acts of love done in secret will keep us humble. — James Stuart Bell

I told her my father was a retired janitor who liked to go fishing. She told me her father was a podiatrist who liked to punch his wife and two daughters in the face.

In Leonardo da Vinci's Notebooks, we read: An oyster opens wide at full moon. When the crab sees this, it throws a pebble or a twig at the oyster to keep it from closing and thus have it to feed upon. Da Vinci adds the following suitable moral to this fable: Like the mouth that, in telling its secret, places itself at the mercy of an indiscreet listener.

So you were listening at the door?' 'Yes, because I love you.

Eric is dead.

Her secrets weren't kept just from other people but also from herself.