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Quotes About Secrets

ANGUSTIAS.—Yo creo, madre, que él me oculta muchas cosas. BERNARDA.—No procures descubrirlas, no le preguntes y, desde luego, que no te vea llorar jamás.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
I see fetal sciences in you, mummified poems, and bones of my romantic secrets and old innocence. Shall I hang you on the wall of my emotional museum, beside the dark, chill, sleeping irises of my evil? Or shall I spread you over the pines ?suffering book of my love? so you can learn about the song the nightingale offers the dawn?...
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Bajo la luna gitana, las cosas la están mirando y ella no puede mirarlas. Under the gypsy moon, all things are watching her and she cannot see them.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Baile La Carmen está bailando por las calles de Sevilla. Tiene blancos los cabellos y brillantes las pupilas. ¡Niñas, corred las cortinas! En su cabeza se enrosca una serpiente amarilla, y va soñando en el baile con galanes de otros días. ¡Niñas, corred las cortinas! Las calles están desiertas y en los fondos se adivinan, corazones andaluces buscando viejas espinas. ¡Niñas, corred las cortinas! * * * * *
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
I cannot tell it to anyone, so I'm telling it to everyone...
~ Ferenc Karinthy
porque no me interesase lo que papá me estaba contando como porque yo no sabía en qué rincón de mis pensamientos colocar sus palabras ni qué hacer con ellas, y en el fondo yo estaba deseando que terminase cuanto antes de llenarme los oídos con el relato de tantas truculencias.
~ Fernando Aramburu
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~ Fernando Aramburu
And I will pretend That I don't know of your sins Until you are ready to confess But all the time, all the time, I'll know And you can use my skin To bury secrets in.
~ Fiona Apple Maggart
Le mariage est criminel car il tue le mystère.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
So?ii cineaz?, aman?ii prânzesc.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Las fiestas le fueron concedidas al hombre para que pudiera esconder sus pensamientos
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
People keep secrets for all kinds of reasons. To avoid hurting other people. To protect their jobs. Sometimes I think people just get so used to their public versions of the truth, if they've been doing it for a long time, that they forget the secret they've been hiding.
~ Fran Hawthorne
Incluso los mejores no aprender a amar por sí solos. Para pasar de largo ante los ridículos, los vicios y, sobre todo, la estupidez de los seres, es necesario poseer un secreto de amor que el mundo no conozca. Mientras ese secreto no sea hallado, se cambiarán en vano las condiciones humanas.
~ Francois Mauriac
In Mosca's experience, a 'long story' was always a short story someone did not want to tell.
~ Frances Hardinge
Nobody's mind ever remains a blank page, however carefully they are locked away from the world.
~ Frances Hardinge
Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
~ Frances Hardinge
We're in a nest of secrets here. Don't let down your guard.
~ Frances Hardinge
the murderess of time.
~ Frances Hardinge
She had a murder to find, and an island to frighten. Frightened people sometimes made mistakes, and it was a good day to be a ghost.
~ Frances Hardinge
Magic can be found in stolen moments.
~ Francesca Lia Block
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
~ Blaise Pascal
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
~ Blaise Pascal
But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man: the ability to function with the worst possible secrets in your brain. Which was why so many grown-up men seemed so ridiculous. They never felt that responsibility. They were untested, unproven; they were boys in grown-up clothes.
~ Blake Nelson
É o que têm os segredos, acabam por nos enlouquecer. Mas enlouquecem-nos mesmo. Isolam-nos dos outros. Separam-nos da nossa tribo. Acabam por nos destruir. A não ser que uma pessoa seja forte. A não ser que uma pessoa seja muito, muito forte.
~ Blake Nelson