Quotes About Secrets

I'd sat on a bench there with Mabry and Bennett, eating ice cream and making up dramatic stories about the people we'd seen, their hidden lives and dark secrets. Mabry said I gave her nightmares sometimes, that that was the true mark of a storyteller, to make people believe something made-up was real.

Her father always said that the price for hearing gossip was having someone else gossip about you.

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I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

I believe if something needs to be said, people should say it. Blunt doesn't stab as deep as being cut by a secret.

Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

No story was just a story, though. It was a suitcase stuffed with secrets.

Last year I discovered that there are secrets to being joyful. … I saw that it is good to be present in good places… [and] it is the small things you do daily which comprise your life and make it meaningful… [and] the third idea I have forgotten. It will have to wait. A perfect illustration of ageing.

Let's always be having an affair. Wherever we meet, however many times a year - let it always be an affair.

might cover two nights. You and your mistress will have to scale

Her fingertips stumbled over the key she'd found years ago. She liked having it. A fib for the chain. Or a talisman. A reminder that secrets can sometimes be discovered when one looks closely at ordinary things.

Shed locked it away, inside a drawer in her mind, and hidden the key.

It is not the sort of place where one would expect to find a witch. But a witch did live there, though she is not buried there.

But she liked having it. A fob for the chain. Or a talisman, maybe. A reminder that secrets can sometimes be discovered when one looks closely at ordinary things.

All she keeps inside isn't on the label.

The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume.

It's no game. Believe me, she is a woman of far greater complexity than you—or anyone—realize. The secrets inside her mind are like flowers in a garden at nighttime, filling the darkness with perfume. Oh, she has extraordinary charm. Next to that secret charm of hers, her talent as a poet is really only a sort of costume.

the Rokuj? lady was much more than a passing affair, and something in the way you wrote it made me certain: you must have loved someone else, someone young, not Akio's father. And that person died, didn't he? At the front." "Yes." Mieko said the one word, and nothing more.

There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Gérard de Villiers

After a time, Fogelin shifted into writing and editing manuals. Often lampooned, these texts, if studied with a fanaticism ordinarily reserved for the Bible, revealed a multitude of secrets.

In what way is a lobster more ridiculous than a dog, a cat, a gazelle, a lion, or any other animal you take for a walk? I'm fond of lobsters. They're peaceful, serious, know the secrets of the deep, don't bark, and don't invade our privacy like dogs.

my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house