Quotes About Secrets

Da dove devo cominciare? Intanto, va chiarita subito una cosa fondamentale: un romanziere non scrive mai tutto quello che sa sui suoi personaggi. I lettori non devono venire a sapere tutto. Alcuni aspetti è meglio che restino un segreto fra lo scrittore e le sue creature.

What about you?" inquired Lobosch. "You're not afraid, are you, Krabat?" "More than you guess," said Krabat. "And not for myself alone." Otfried Preussler, The Satanic Mill

It is hard to have secrets one cannot share, or to believe in a truth that others don't want to see.

I can see why your father has never told you about Capricorn,' said Dustfinger, looking at Mo. 'If I had children I'd rather tell them about nice people too.

Perché gli adulti credevano che i bambini sopportassero meglio i misteri che la verità? Non sapevano quali storie terribili ci si andava a inventare, alle volte, per tentare di capire ciò che i grandi nascondevano?

Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets?

First, something basic: a storyteller never writes down everything he knows about his characters. There's no need for readers to know everything. Some of it is better kept secret between the author and his creations.

Niemand au?er den Ratsmidgliedern, ihre Sekretären, Ehefrauen, den Minenarbeitern, die die Gruft gefunden haben...' Jacob hob den Zwerg in den Käfig. 'Ich wurde mich nicht darauf verlassen, dass euer Geheimnis sicher ist.

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That is in the nature of secrets

You know what is in Room 101, Winston. Everyone knows what is in Room 101.

She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse to suppress them. I always thought I wanted to know a secret, or I wanted an event to unfold – I wanted my life to start – but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

There are two kinds of marriages: the ones where you're privy to how messy they are, and the ones where you're not.

There are two kinds of marriages," Barbara said. "The ones where you're privy to how messy they are, and the ones where you're not.

though as secrets went, this wasn't great. The kind I preferred were about specific people.

You never know the nature of another couple's marriage, do you?

Secrets, he had learned, were the very soil that sorrows grew most easily out of.

Some secrets were so dangerous that they should never be kept.

How she loved to listen when he thought only the horse could hear.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

So maybe that's what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was. At any rate, I'm glad she doesn't know about the corpse that's down there in that well. I've spared her that much.

Well, how about the Lennon Sisters then? They can't be much older than you are." I lied and told her one of her precious Lennon sisters—Diane, the oldest, her favorite—was having an illegitimate baby. "Pfft," she said, flicking away the possibility with the flap of her wrist. But her lip quivered and she left my room making the sign of the cross.

This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.

He never trusted Jobs with a key to the stockroom.

Clara kam in New Jersey zur Welt, wo ihre Eltern gelandet waren, nachdem sie aus Armenien geflohen waren. Als sie noch ein Kind war, zogen sie nach San Francisco, Mission District. Als junge Frau hatte sie ein Geheimnis, das sie selten jemandem verriet: Sie war schon einmal verheiratet gewesen, doch ihr Mann war im Krieg gefallen. Als sie Paul Jobs das erste Mal traf, war sie bereit, ein neues Leben zu beginnen.