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Quotes About Secrets

You're more dangerous than daybreak.
~ Holly Black
Well, wife,' he says to me, a chill in his voice. 'It seems you have kept at least one secret from your dowry.
~ Holly Black
Oh, God, Call thought. Tamara's father. And he'd just kissed Tamara. Was that why Mr. Rajavi was here? Don't be totally ridiculous, said Aaron. Do you think he's psychic or something? Kimiya was grounded for making out with Evil Overlord Alex — Tamara had said so. Mr. Rajavi had a well-established policy of not liking his children making out with Evil Overlords.
~ Holly Black
I only hope he doesn't taste the bitterness of poison on my lips.
~ Holly Black
They have a friend—" Tana began. "I have a friend, too," said Gavriel. "And I mean to kill him.
~ Holly Black
The Bomb elbows me in the side. "We came up with your code name," she mouths. I hadn't even seen her come in past the locked doors. "What?" I feel as tired as I ever felt, and yet, for seven years, I will not be able to truly rest. I expect her to say The Liar. She gives me a tricksy grin, full of secrets. "What else? The Queen.
~ Holly Black
I have secrets aplenty. There are so many things you don't know, daughter of Madoc. And I think you crave a little violence yourself.
~ Holly Black
Oh, yeah?" Chris says. "Maybe you should tell your friends that you're an emotion worker instead of hiding it. Do you think they'll listen to you then?" ... "How could you do this to me?" - Daneca "It's not my fault you're a liar." - Chris
~ Holly Black
Jude never loved Locke.' My face feels hot, but my shame is an excellent cover to hide behind. 'She loved someone else. He's the one she'd want dead.' I am pleased to see Cardan flinch. 'Enough,' he says before I can go on. 'I have heard all I care to on this subject-
~ Holly Black
I know the number of steps to the top of every spire. I know every corner that a child could hide in, every place she could be dragged out from.
~ Holly Black
I'm kind of a coward about love", she continued, "I said i wished boys would show me some secret side of themselves, but you did, and now all i wanna do is run away.
~ Holly Black
An unnamed favour is a dangerous thing to give...
~ Holly Black
Carapaces focused on their own shadows, using them to soar through the air on shadow wings or armor themselves. Puppeteers sent their shadows to do things in secret—in Charlie's experience, largely the kind of foul shit no one wanted to talk about. And the masks weren't much better, a bunch of creeps and mystics intent on unraveling the secrets of the universe, no matter who it hurt.
~ Holly Black
I want to tell you so many lies/
~ Holly Black
You may know the Grace kids well, but there is still much tale to tell...
~ Holly Black
Go away, close the book, put it down do not look!
~ Holly Black
It was about this, wasn't it? He knew. They all knew." I think of Nicasia sitting at Locke's dining table, seeming for a moment to take me into her confidence. He ruins things. That's what he likes. To ruin things
~ Holly Black
I imagine that is I asked, she'd roll with me right here until we turned her white gown green and then thank me for the honour of my favour.' He smiles, going in for the kill, leaning toward me as if confiding a secret. 'Not that I'd be the first to green gown her.
~ Holly Black
Go ahead and tell them if you want, but you should know this—someone you trust has already betrayed you.
~ Holly Black
Come fight me again," she calls after me as I head for the stairs. "I have secrets aplenty. There are so many things you don't know, daughter of Madoc. And I think you crave a little violence yourself.
~ Holly Black
I cannot share my secrets with her, even to brag. And I admit that I desperately want to brag.
~ Holly Black
We came up with your code name," she mouths. ... I expect her to say 'The Liar.' She gives me a tricksy grin, full of secrets. "What else? The Queen.
~ Holly Black
Something is really wrong with me, to want what I hate, to want someone who despises me, even if he wants me, too. My only comfort is that he doesn't know what I feel.
~ Holly Black
only under the water can I allow myself to weep. Only under the water can I admit that I almost died and that I was terrified and that I wish there was someone to whom I could tell all that. I hold my breath until there's no more breath to hold.
~ Holly Black