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Quotes About Secrets

how many lies had Maman told Paul over the years?
~ Lauren Tarshis
They even revealed the existence of the plot to Magellan; they confided that if the plot succeded
~ Laurence Bergreen
She turned out to be a ship filled with secrets. In 1511, Cristóbal de Haro had backed a covert Portuguese
~ Laurence Bergreen
A cadaver does not yield the secret to the human experience.
~ Laurence Galian
To understand these Alien Parasites, where they come from and what their intentions are, the reader must explore the teachings of Gnosticism. The Gnostics are a group of wise adepts who understand the mysteries and secrets of the universe.
~ Laurence Galian
One of the arts is creative writing and profound secrets are hidden in novels.
~ Laurence Galian
Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
~ Laurence Sterne
You Know You Love Me! XOXO Gossip Girl
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me. XOXO, Gossip Girl
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.
~ Cees Nooteboom
Everything would work out and she wouldn't have to tell Dane that the box full of ancient ivory penises was roaming freely about Kirkall Hall.
~ Celeste Bradley
It is so difficult to be honest when someone has died; it's as if truth stops at the grave even when the lies continue to hurt the living.
~ Celeste De Blasis
The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you.
~ Celeste Ng
Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet. 1977, May 3, six thirty in the morning, no one knows anything but this innocuous fact: Lydia is late for breakfast.
~ Celeste Ng
At last she turned to the only source she could think of: her mother. Her mother was a journalist, at least in name. True, her mother mostly covered small stories, but journalists found things out.
~ Celeste Ng
It was too big to talk about, what had happened. It was like a landscape they could not see all at once; it was like the sky at night, which turned and turned so they couldn't find its edges. It would always feel too big. He pushed her in. And then he pulled her out. All her life, Lydia would remember one thing. All his life, Nath would remember another.
~ Celeste Ng
Lydia has never really had friends, but their parents have never known.
~ Celeste Ng
Lydia is dead.
~ Celeste Ng
At bedtime, Nath and Lydia brushed their teeth sociably at the sink, taking turns to spit, saying goodnight as if it were any other night. It was too big to talk about, what had happened. It was like a landscape they could not see all at once; it was like the sky at night, which turned and turned so they couldn't find its edges. It would always feel too big. He pushed her in. And then he pushed her out. All her life, Lydia would remember one thing. All his life, Nath would remember another.
~ Celeste Ng
So many lives she would never know all unfolding behind those doors.
~ Celeste Ng
Mom," she said. "Dad. It's not what you think.
~ Celeste Ng
settled on her shoulders like a heavy bag, and she wanted badly to blurt it out to her husband, to share some of its weight, but she pushed it away.
~ Celeste Ng
Later, slowly, they will piece together other things that have never been said.
~ Celeste Ng
Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.
~ Chanakya