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Quotes About Secrets

aqueles que escapam do inferno nunca falam sobre isso e nada mais incomoda eles
~ Charles Bukowski
Every personal story, every secret, every vulnerability you share with someone is a potential weapon that you're placing in that person's hand.
~ Charles Casillo
You all have stories, Sandy said. And we have secrets
~ Charles D'Ambrosio
Twas the night before Christmas, the office was closed, The transom was shut, the staff home in repose; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, But St. Nicholas won't be coming because this is a Designated National Security Site within the meaning of Para 4.12 of Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act (Amended) and unauthorised intrusion on such a site is an arrestable offense ...
~ Charles Stross
loose lips don't merely sink ships, they summon krakens with too many tentacles.
~ Charles Stross
I've met gibbering horrors from other universes, been psychically entangled with a serial killer fish goddess, stalked by zombies, imprisoned by a megalomaniac billionaire, and I've even survived the attention of the Auditors (when I was young, foolish, and didn't know any better). But I've never lost a classified file before, and I don't ever want there to be a first time. I force myself to sit down
~ Charles Stross
The bastard knows I need to know what he knows and he knows I can't say no.
~ Charles Stross
It's absolutely true that Lovecraft knew stuff. Somewhere in grandpa's library he got his hands on the confused rambling inner doctrines of a dozen cults and secret societies. Most of these secrets were arrant nonsense on stilts—admixed with just enough knowledge to be deadly dangerous.
~ Charles Stross
If he wakes the ancient sleeping horrors I am going to have to brief the private secretary and the Joint Intelligence Oversight Committee so that they can explain CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN to the COBRA Committee, chaired by the Prime Minister, and I expect that will make them extremely unhappy
~ Charles Stross
Some of my people are well on their way to becoming formidable practitioners (like Alex, but best not to tell the little oik that).
~ Charles Stross
Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and recording everything.
~ Charles Stross
I'm on page 65 of 368 of Sleepless: I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.
~ Charlie Huston
I would never dream of killing an excellent tailor, not even to keep a secret that could endanger my life.
~ Charlie Huston
My mother agreed to aid my abuse of alcohol but only if I promised never to tell my newly converted Mormon sister, whose identity I had stolen.
~ Chelsea Handler
I believe people who shower twice a day are hiding a secret, or a sandwich.
~ Chelsea Handler
I find excessive showering just for the hell of it overrated. I believe people who shower twice a day are hiding a secret.
~ Chelsea Handler
When person A loves person B, he began, person A gets upset at the thought of never seeing person B again. He meant me. He meant he loved me. But now I knew that love was a poisonous thing. It had turned me into a murderer. I would die with my secret before I would tell. It's better that way, I lied, because person B doesn't love person A back.
~ Cherie Bennett
two by six Joyce below the floor boards.
~ Chet Cunningham
Even a magnificent city such as Florence becomes more intriguing if there is a demon at work in the alleys.
~ Chris Bohjalian
I am a raft of secrets, she thought, and she imagined herself on timbers from a shipwreck, the water around her endless in all directions.
~ Chris Bohjalian
Chris Bohjalian
~ Hotel Lutetia.
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.
~ Colin Trevorrow
I would be heartbroken if I found out my husband had a mistress.
~ Jes Macallan
Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.
~ Alan Furst