Quotes About Secrets

If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext.

Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous puzzle. Within its Spanish bungalows, its eucalyptus-scented shadows, you feel as though you've discovered a delicious and dark secret, a tantalizing page-turner with sneakily subversive undercurrents.

No matter what these people say about me, my music doesn't glorify any image. My music is spiritual when you listen to it. It's all about emotion, I tell my innermost, darkest secrets.

Real treasure lies not in what that can be seen, but what that cannot be seen.

Carefully, the girl skimmed her fingers across her mother's knee. It was smooth; the skin had closed across the tiny wounds like the surface of the river after you toss stones into the waves. Only you knew they were there. Unless you told.

And now you will ask me about the musicians that played for the jackalope wives. Well, if you can find a place where they've been dancing, you might see something like sidewinder tracks in the dust, and more than that I cannot tell you. The desert chews its secrets right down to the bone.

The guardian flipped it over. "It's one of ours, yes . . . hmm. Says it's addressed to Eudaimonia—

Deux heures de l'après-midi est prosaïque, presque vulgaire; mais deux heures du matin est un aventurier qui s'enfonce dans l'inconnu. Et cet inconnu, c'est trois heures du matin, le pôle nocturne, le continent mystérieux du temps. On en fait le tour; et si on croit l'avoir traversé jamais, on se trompe, car bientôt quatre heures du matin arrive sans que vous ayez surpris le secret de la nuit. Et le petit jour strie déjà les volets de ses baguettes bleues parallèles.

In spite of myself, I kept tunneling under and out, carrying secret, scary, confusing discoveries back in with me until, finally, I got to a place where I stood and looked back, and the walls looked to me like a prison instead of a sanctuary.

There is nothing hidden between Heaven and Earth.

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Keep an open mind. Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe.

conspiracy practitioners.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Then the doors closed throughout the hotel. Everyone locked himself in behind the double doors and each was left alone with himself and his secrets.

No one keeps a secret so well as a child

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

You slept with Curran and you didn't tell me? I'm your best friend." "It didn't come up." "How disappointing for you." Ha-ha. "That's not what I meant.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?