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Quotes About Secrets

For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.
~ Brian Skerry
I have a notebook of concepts. There are titles everywhere if you are looking for them. I pull from them. There is a secret list that I keep for myself about what I want to sing about, and those are the ones I know I am not going to give up for someone else.
~ Bonnie McKee
As you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects. And this sometimes gets me into trouble.
~ Ronald Kessler
There's nothing closer than a diplomat and a spy.
~ Sarah Gristwood
He's following me... He needs to have a secret but he can´t help telling the heat is going out of me. The heart is going out of me, and though she cannot remember she cannot forget. Clutching a fistful of sand. What ties me to you is guilt. I crossed two rivers and wept by one I am the beast at the end of the rope Happy and free.
~ Sarah Kane
A - Il n'y a pas de secrets M - Il n'y a que des aveugles
~ Sarah Kane
A woman I knew was so attached to the idea of having a terrible secret, she told me the same secret three times, each time as if for the first time.
~ Sarah Manguso
If you want to know someone's secret, don't ask a thing. Just listen.
~ Sarah Manguso
There were so many lies, all of them precious, all of them necessary.
~ Sarah Monette
I understood him then, as tendrils of the violet-red miasma that surrounded him reached out hungrily toward me. He was not interested in my body, as I'd already realized; for Brother Orphelin, celibacy was not a difficult discipline. His lust was for secrets, for shame and guilt, for petty darknesses. More and worse, he was a sophisticate: his pleasure was not in the secret itself, but in the power it gave him over me, in his knowledge of what it did to me to know that he knew.
~ Sarah Monette
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed." —Charlotte
~ Sarah Morgan
Secrets, she discovered, were clutter. They filled the space inside you and gathered dust. They stopped you connecting fully with people.
~ Sarah Morgan
You never know, just by looking, what a person is hiding.
~ Sarah Morgan
That's when it hit me. I scrambled to his side of the bed in haste, silently opened the bedside drawer and located the box of matches he had used to light the candle.
~ Sarah Stein
The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
You thought her a pigeon. Pigeon, my arse. That bitch knew everything. She had been in on it from the start.
~ Sarah Waters
We were thinking of secrets. Real secrets, and snide. Too many to count. When I try now to sort out who knew what and who knew nothing, who knew everything and who was a fraud, I have to stop and give it up, it makes my head spin.
~ Sarah Waters
The only secrets I know are that if you keep your body moving and you know what is in your heart, your life will be better for it. It is not rocket science.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
The only secrets I know are that if you keep your body moving and you know what is in your heart, your life will be better for it.
~ Sarah-Kate Lynch
Secrets aren't the same as lying,' Vaughn commented, because they both had the muddiest of ethics, which was an odd thing to have in common.
~ Sarra Manning
Secrets aren´t the same as lying.
~ Sarra Manning
Max always mumbles; not in a shy way, but rather as if he's telling you what it will cost to take out your worst enemy, or how much you'd have to pay to rig a horse race.
~ Scarlett Thomas
Scott B. Smith
~ liar's smile
If you want to learn the secrets of any performer, see his show twice. Then you'll notice how much of what seems improvised truly is.
~ Scott Berkun