Quotes About Secrets

The secret is honey.

EMMA: You know what I found out ... last night? He's betrayed me for years. He's had... other women for years. JERRY No? Good Lord. (Pause) But we betrayed him for years. EMMA And he betrayed me for years. JERRY Well I never knew that. EMMA Nor did I.

must safeguard the woman from his past who is nurturing a ticking time bomb of a secret. The momentum keeps building as Sylvie Kurtz launches

Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.

Scout: Why are you entrusting us your deepest secret? Mr. Raymond: Because you're children and you can understand it.

But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.

Scout, if there's ever anything that happens to you or something—you know—something you might not want to tell Atticus about— Huh? You know, if you get in trouble at school or anything—you just let me know. I'll take care of you.

L'estate significava per me Dill accanto alla vasca dei pesci che fumava sigarette di canapa; significava gli occhi di Dill che brillavano mentre almanaccava complicati progetti per stanare Boo Radley; l'estate significava Dill che mi baciava, rapido, quando Jem non ci guardava, significava le nostalgie che ciascuno di noi provava e che l'altro intuiva: con lui la vita era normale; senza di lui, insopportabile.

Stephanie Crawford even told me once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her. I said what did you do, Stephanie, move over in the bed and make room for him? That shut her up for a while.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets-

If he's not he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets—

I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.

I scurried to my room and went to bed. Uncle Jack was a prince of a fellow not to let me down. But I never figured out how Atticus knew I was listening, and it was not until many years later that I realized he wanted me to hear every word he said.

Didn't you know? Hasn't Atticus gotten around to telling you that? Why, I'm amazed at Zandra not . . . good heavens, I thought all of Maycomb knew that." "Knew what?" "I was in love with your mother." "My mother?

She looked at Maycomb, and her throat tightened: Maycomb was looking back at her. Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose.

Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever skied. But she didn't explain and I didn't ask. Married life is weird, I felt.

No one can know everything about another person. Not even God, probably.

One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara a secret from Kumiko. My relationship with her was not that big a deal, finally: whether I mentioned it or not was of no consequence. Once it had flown down a certain delicate channel, however, it had become cloaked in the opacity of secretiveness, whatever my original intention had have been.

This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock built when peace filled the world.

There are things in his world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about.