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Quotes About Secrets

The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our loved one to simply understand it, without needing to ask. In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion.
~ Cassandra Clare
At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.
~ Cassandra Clare
For the first time Valentine glanced down at the body of Brother Jeremiah. "I did kill him, and the rest of the Silent Brothers as well. I had to. They had something I needed." "What? A sense of decency?
~ Cassandra Clare
And I suppose you know who Magnus' father is?" Luke said. "I paid a lot of money once to find it out," Raphael said.
~ Cassandra Clare
They had just showed up, Amatis had said. Which meant Simon had spent the entire night at Isabelle's. She stared at him. He didn't look any different.
~ Cassandra Clare
Sometimes she thought the only things she had faith in were revenge and Julian.
~ Cassandra Clare
In the dark and the shadows where secrets lived, that was where Julian survived. It was how he had managed for years.
~ Cassandra Clare
He cut her off with brutal precision. "And one last thing." His eyes flicked toward the door, through which Jace, Alec, and Isabelle had disappeared. "Keep in mind that when your mother fled from the Shadow World, it wasn't the monsters she was hiding from. Not the warlocks, the wolf-men, the Fair Folk, not even the demons themselves. It was them. It was the Shadowhunters.
~ Cassandra Clare
They need a muse," said Anna. "Someone to be inspired by. Someone to know their secrets. Would you like to be a muse?" "No," said Cordelia. "I would like to be a hero.
~ Cassandra Clare
You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter.
~ Cassandra Clare
A secret too long kept can kill a soul by inches. I watched a secret almost destroy a man once, the finest man ever made. Such a secret is like keeping treasure in a tomb. Little by little, poison eats away at the gold. By the time the door is opened, there may be nothing left but dust.
~ Cassandra Clare
So Jace is my actual family," Kit said. "But I can't go live with him, because him and his hot girlfriend are going off on some sort of secret mission." "Guess you Herondales have a type," Julian muttered.
~ Cassandra Clare
There were dozens of papers with complex numerical and alchemial figuring on them, and even a piece of stationary that began My beautiful one in Sebastian's cramped handwriting. She spared a moment to wonder who on earth Sebastian's beautiful one could be--she hadn't thought of him as someone who ever had romantic feelings about anyone.
~ Cassandra Clare
The Cold Peace wasn't what took Mark away from us," said Julian, his cheeks burning with color. "That was you. The Wild Hunt. We can see by your eyes that you ride with Gwyn, don't deny it." "Oh," said Kieran with a slight smirk on his lips. "I would not deny that." Emma wondered if anyone else heard Julian's intake of breath. "So you know my brother." The smirk never left Kieran's face. "Of course I do.
~ Cassandra Clare
You may fear what will happen if you speak your heart. You may wish to hide things because you fear hurting others. But secrets have a way of eating at relationships, Jamie. At love, at friendship—they undermine and destroy them until in the end you find you are bitterly alone with the secrets you kept.
~ Cassandra Clare
First the flame and then the flood: In the end it's Blackthorn blood. Seek thou to forget what's past First thirteen and then the last. Search not the book of angels gray, Red or white will lead you far astray. To regain what you have lost, Find the black book at any cost.
~ Cassandra Clare
Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, "So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?" Clary thought of the male faerie's torn-open ribs and shuddered. "Nothing that pleasant.
~ Cassandra Clare
Yes?" said Clary, her voiced sharply edged. "Since I found out what? That he's a killer transvestite who molests cats?" "No wonder that cat of his hates everyone.
~ Cassandra Clare
He wont have to worry about you spilling his secrets." "Yeah," Jace said, "he's terrified I'll tell everyone that he's always really wanted to be a ballerina." -Inquisitor & Jace about Valentine, pg.123-
~ Cassandra Clare
Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?
~ Cassandra Clare
The Silent brothers are doing nude cartwheels in the hallways
~ Cassandra Clare
You're the shape-changer, aren't you?" Ragnor said. "Magnus Bane told me about you. No mark on you at all, they say.""No. No mark."He grinned around his fork. "I do suppose they've looked everywhere?""I'm sure Will's tried," said Jessamine.
~ Cassandra Clare
The discussion about how she was in Arizona stalking her birth mother, whose name she'd gotten on the duplicate birth certificate she'd ordered because she'd lost her original, should really happen in person, but that was impossible right now. Oh, what a tangled web...
~ Cat Johnson
Drag all the skeletons out where we can see 'em," she said softly."That's the only way to get rid of them. They hate the sun light.
~ Cate Tiernan