Quotes About Secrets
Secrets are delicate things. They can fill you up with sweetness and leave you like a cat who has found a particularly fat sparrow to eat and did not get clawed or bitten even once while she was about it. But they can also get stuck inside you, and very slowly boil up your bones for their bitter soup. Then the secret has you, not the other way around.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
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Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in a box where it can't hurt anyone.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
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But something older and wiser within her said, Some things are for hiding and for keeping.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
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Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy. Within the pure white wimple of her beekeeping suit, wrapped in buzzing,
~ Catherynne M. Valente
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My mistress used to say that you couldn't ever really be naked unless you wanted to be. She said: even if you've taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It's quite difficult to be really naked. You have to work hard at it.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
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My mistress used to say that you couldn't ever really be naked unless you wanted to be. She said, 'Even if you've taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It's quite difficult to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn't being naked, not really. It's just showing skin. And foxes and bears have skin, too, so I shan't be ashamed if they're not.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
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What price the Red Wind paid for Hawthorn's postage he never saw. One can only know the weight and heft of the prices one pays onself. The costs borne by others are their own, secret and deep and long.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
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And that's how you begin to win over a child. People who share a secret share a heart.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
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I save my truths, my secrets, for the lyrics of our songs... nobody would ever spot them there, hiding in plain sight.
~ Cathy Cassidy
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Of course, my children were horrified that Oskar had been abused, although they weren't wholly surprised. Having grown up with fostering, they could often spot the signs when a child was harbouring a dark secret, just as I could. Fostering had taught us that evil things do happen and they're not just horror stories in the news.
~ Cathy Glass
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One did not need to penetrate David's secret counsels or insinuate a man in his bodyguard. All one needed was a pair of years and access to the royal precincts. Just to eavesdrop upon his singing was to develop an accurate idea of his state of mind.
~ Geraldine Brooks
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Die twaalf gulden zijn de reden dat ik deze brief schrijf want daarginder wens ik u, zo dol als ik op u ben, allemaal, ongezien, de kanker.
~ Gerard Reve
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so
~ Gertrude Atherton
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That's what I was doing the day you children found me in your grandfather's room." Mr.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
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Levi, un apellido de los que se murmuran al oído.
~ Gesualdo Bufalino
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Rhetoric makes use of nature's secrets in the same way as painters who try to imitate it: their most beautiful work is false.
~ Giacomo Casanova
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Incaute voci Spande il tuo labbro : i destinati eventi Move arcano consiglio. Arcano è tutto, Fuor che il nostro dolor. Voix inutiles Verse ta lèvre : c'est un secret vouloir Qui meut les destinées. Tout est secret Hormis notre douleur. (Ultimo canto di Saffo, Dernier chant de Sappho)
~ Giacomo Leopardi
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Every man has reminiscences that he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind that he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. Dostoyevsky. Notes from Underground
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
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Every man has reminiscences that he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind that he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. Dostoyevsky. Notes from Underground. It
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
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I was starting to grasp the mysteries of the city in which we had been moving for many hours now. It was as if I sensed its hidden spaces, its secret lives, the windows where people's silhouettes passed for a moment and disappeared forever. I glimpsed, in the broken lines of those streets, the hidden code of my present life and above all my future one.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
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Some people may not know the things that you hide about yourself. Yet, God will always know everything.
~ Gift Gugu Mona
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In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
~ Gilbert Parker
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There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. Babbling covers a lot of secrets.
~ Gilbert Parker
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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
~ Gillian Flynn
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