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Quotes About Secrets

You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter," he said. "You just won't admit it. And if you want Jace, you had better accept it. Because he belongs to me now.
~ Cassandra Clare
In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time.
~ Garry Kasparov
I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.
~ Ally Carter
Listen to me, Cammie. There are things in this life…in this world…There are things that you don't want to remember." - Rachel Morgan
~ Ally Carter
The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.
~ Bruce Feiler
I think," Jace said, "that you don't want to tell your secrets, so you decided to break up with Alec because...
~ Cassandra Clare
Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.
~ E. L. Konigsburg
In Mosca's experience, a 'long story' was always a short story someone did not want to tell.
~ Frances Hardinge
You can know the secrets of life. It doesn't happen to anyone special. You just decide that you want an uncommonly fine life and you will it.
~ Frederick Lenz
The mind held too many secrets. The brain was a sack of truths and their power, hiding there inside, was absolute. Twist one truth into a lie, and a man became a wolf. His flesh and bones could only follow, straining to reshape themselves.
~ Steven Erikson
There were secrets in music and poetry. Secrets few knew and even fewer understood. Their power often stole into a listener subtle as the memory of scent on a drawn breath, less than a whisper, yet capable of transforming the one so gifted, an instinctual ecstasy that made troubles vanish, that made all manner of grandeur possible - indeed, within reach.
~ Steven Erikson
Well, everyone had his secrets. And few are worth sharing. Unless you enjoy losing friends.
~ Steven Erikson
It's rare you'll find a mage with a pleasant past
~ Steven Erikson
There were loves in the world that never found voice. There were secrets never unveiled, and what would have been the point of that? She was no languid beauty. She was no genius wit. Courage failed her again and again, but not this time, as she drew sharp blades lengthways up her wrists, at precise angles, and watched as life flowed away. In Irilta's mind, this last gesture was but a formality.
~ Steven Erikson
The ground is bare and hard / and will hold all secrets / and the sky cares not / for the games of those beneath it.
~ Steven Erikson
Words were numbers were codes were formulae. Words held secret maps, the measuring of paces, the patterns of mortal minds, of histories, of cities, of continents and warrens.
~ Steven Erikson
Mortality was the realm of deceit; the sordid room of horror hid in the house of the living, its walls crusted and streaked, dark stains on the warped floor. Dust crowded the corners, dust made of skin flakes and snarls of hair, nail clippings and clots of phlegm. Every house had its secret room, where memories howled in the thick silence.
~ Steven Erikson
If we're lucky and skillful enough — if we transform the equations in just the right way — we can get them to reveal their hidden implications. To a mathematician, the process feels almost palpable. It's as if we're manipulating the equations, massaging them, trying to relax them enough so that they'll spill their secrets. We want them to open up and talk to us.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
Relationships fall apart when the guy turns into a wimp or the girl has no more secrets.
~ Steven James
Books are in the holy shape. They are silent and yet they speak directly into the imagination. You can burn them but they are more powerful than fire. All the knowledge of the ancient ones are put into them. The secrets of the age of vision. - Paris, See: Season 1 Ep.2
~ Steven Knight
I kept secrets from you. I let you believe a lie. I am an impious son. But I made my choice, as C(aesar) did, and once the Rubicon is crossed, there can be no turning back (Meto, Caesar's scribe, to his father Gordianus the Finder)
~ Steven Saylor
There was mystery at the heart of any of marriage, secrets even people close to it would never know.
~ Stewart O'Nan
The tasted keep their secrets.
~ Storm Constantine
I expect you know, with your intuitive senses, that he's been after Lily." "Sort of, yes." "I need to talk to you about him, but not yet." He came back to Daniel, took his hands in his own. "Tonight is ours. I want to forget Othman, Lily, everything. Just for a while.
~ Storm Constantine