Quotes About Secrets

It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment

Secrets can kill the innocent and enchant the guilty.

Keeping secrets is a survival tactic.

Every secret has a expiration date...

Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me.

I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita's, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.

We can always HIDE things AWAY.But we could NEVER FORGET them~ Your Lie In April

Shared secrets have way of creating bonds

Lies don't end relationships the truth does.

The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.

Somebody knows.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life, ' he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.

Was it even possible to forgive the dead? Was forgiveness an emotion, or a transaction that required a partner? I had made a promise to someone who would never see it kept. I wanted to respect my grandfather's wish, and it would have been no trouble to evade my mother's question. Keeping secrets was the family business. But it was a business, it seemed to me, that none of us had ever profited from.

I agreed to keep the cards a secret and asked my grandmother if she believed in magic. She said she did not but that, surprisingly, magic worked even if you did not believe in it.

Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed.

Wow,' said Eddie. Oriole had revealed the secret of her necklace to him many times in the past, in exactly these terms, following the script of the tour she conducted for visitors through a fragmentary scale model of her vanished life.

I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them.

But then the world changes and your own DNA can unlock everything and secrets aren't secrets anymore.

It's lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are.

would have to reveal to Emily the rift that had

You can't know people that well, man. Everybody's got a private room." "So

keep your quid pro quota shit. I only tol' you about Story because he's dead. You can put me back in