Quotes About Secrets

Nadira gave Kate a long hard look. "Mr. Slater has the ship. Mr. Cruse has the coordinates. I have the key. What exactly do you have?" For the first time Kate looked flustered.

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a peeping Tom and I will show you the makings of a dramatist.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you're keeping.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.

I keep my closet neat now, The skeleton well covered. But when you even walk by the locked door, The breezes of your look Stir what hangs inside-- And I wonder what you are hearing When those knee-bones knock together.

Ahora que lo pienso, es bastante asombroso qué pocos secretos guarda la gente. Un par de charlas en un café, y ya están todos revelados. El secreto persiste sólo mientras nadie pregunta.

For we are all in some way or other kept asunder by our secrets; and instead of seeking through confession to bridge the abysses that separate us from one another, we choose the easy by-way of deceptive opinions and illusions.

She'd heard there were

In hard times you don't share your secrets and you sure don't borrow trouble.

Her dad said, "Why didn't you wake me up and tell me?" Gracie looked over, her eyes dead. "I wasn't sure whose tent you were in." "Meow," Danielle whispered. Her dad turned red and looked quickly away. Gracie felt both good and ashamed at the same time. She expected a glare from Rachel, but the woman eyed her stoically. As if assessing her for later.

She wished she could just set down the secret and leave it somewhere. But secrets were like land mines. You had to make sure no one stepped on them. Or the whole family might blow up.

Todo el mundo tiene algún secreto. Como hace una ostra con un grano de arena, lo enterramos a gran profundidad en nuestro interior y lo cubrimos con capas opalescentes, como si eso pudiera curar nuestra herida mortal.

Algunos de nosotros dedicamos la vida entera a mantener oculto un secreto, a salvo de quienes intentan entrometerse y atesorándolo como si fuera una perla, solo para acabar descubriendo que se nos escapa cuando menos lo esperamos, revelado por un destello de miedo en los ojos cuando nos pillan desprevenidos, por un dolor repentino, rabia u odio, o por una vergüenza que lo consume todo.

Everyone has secret. Like the oyster with its grain of sand, we bury it deep within, coating it with opalescent layers, as if that could heal our mortal wound. Some of us devote our entire lives to keeping our secret hidden, safe from those who might pry it from us, hoarding it like the pearl, only to discover that it escapes us when we least expect it. revealed by a flash of fear in our eyes when caught unawares, by a sudden pain, a rage or hatred, or an all-consuming shame.

Even a fool could become dangerous when armed with a secret.

The boy whose first beginning nobody knew, and the girl who came into the world before her time.

If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?

A girl with tears and secrets in her eyes.

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

I have a soft spot in my heart for rogues," she continued. "They are so much more honest in their approach to life than the usual paragons of propriety. Those sober, proper gentlemen more often than not harbor cold hearts and dark secrets.

This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.