Quotes About Secrets

The scent of elder bushes, the sporting prints in the hall, The croquet matches in summer, the handshake, the cough, the kiss, There is always a wicked secret, a private reason for this. —W. H. Auden

To heap misery upon misery, red paint has marked the edifices of two more houses—those belonging to the Musgraves and the Riddingtons. Both are honorable families, but I know all too well we never can be sure who may be hiding something dark.

You're playing with Pandora's box. Sometimes it's better not to open it. Sometimes, it's better not to know.

Finally, the lock clicked and she tugged the secret door open. A rotten stench hit her like a fist. She drew away. The boy at her side recoiled, afraid. Sarah fell to her knees. Sarah could not speak, she could only quiver, her fingers covering her eyes, her nose, blocking out the smell.....She sank to her knees again and she screamed at the top of her lungs, she screamed, for her mother, for her father, screamed for Michel.

The girl wondered if her parents had been right to protect her from everything, if they had been right not to explain why so many things had changed for them since the start of the war... Nobody would tell her. Nobody would explain. She hated being treated like a baby. She hated the voices being lowered when she entered the room. If they had told her, if they had told her everything they knew, wouldn't that have made today easier?

Are we not forever shaped by our childhood, its scars, its secrets, its hidden pain?

I didn't tell Celestial about the voices in my head. I'm sure she had a choir of her own.

Celestial isn't the kind of singer you would want at your wedding. While her mother is a gravity-defying soprano, she is a scotch-and-Marlboros alto. Even when she was a little girl, her voice was like the middle of the night. When she gives a song, it isn't entertaining; rather, it sounds like she is telling secrets that are not hers to reveal.

like that one time when Celestial happened upon a receipt for two pieces of lingerie, not just for the one I gave her for her birthday.

They hid it obviously.

Some find irony in the fact that a study of our brains revealed to us not the secrets of the past but what ultimately awaits us in the future.

estamos tan enfermos como los secretos que guardamos.

My mind became a sanctuary for secret thoughts of escaping from this household.

I have showed things in sparring and camp that I don't show in fights.

They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'

Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

Anything that's secret, clandestine, loaded with such a supercargo of speculation, misinformation, disinformation and, for that matter, accurate revelations, creates an appetite.

For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is nothing further to discover in this great secret, but I could err in my opinion.

My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

When I was younger, I believed my inconsistency was due to my youth. I believed that age would teach me all I needed to know and that when I was older, I would have learned the lessons of life and discovered the secrets of true spirituality. I am older - a lot older - and the secrets are still secret from me.

I don't like spoilers. I don't like things being spoiled.