Quotes About Secrets

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.

It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.

Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I'll tell you. They're secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait." "Wait for what?" "To be forgotten. My father has been gone for sixty years, but" — he tapped the side of his head — "he's still here. He never left.

I'll show you." He ran upstairs and got the notebook. "It's Gramps's Book of Secrets.

A mother can have no secrets in a settler's hut but she cannot so much as break wind and all her children must hear what she has done but now she were far away from Fifteen Mile Creek and no longer could I guess her life. I were told she took laundry and perhaps she did but I am sure she only did what she must do. She had a mother and father and brothers and sisters but in the end she were a poor widow and she had 7 children and all of them was alarmed and unsettled by their lives.

Mrs. Grace Cahill….

They were actually going to keep all four of us together. Tinker, Tailor, Sailor, Traitor.

The Slimeballs Whose Names Should Not Be Mentioned but I'll Do It Anyway. The Massa.

In the next book, A Walk Among the Tombstones, which winds toward an unblinking description of torture and dismemberment, Elaine answers Scudder's admission that he has long been troubled by her visits from other men, and his straightforward confession of love, with the revelation that she has not entertained another man for months, has in fact quit her profession, and of course loves him, too.

Charlie Carpenter rang Lily Sheehan's bell, and when she opened the door he gave her a blue rose. This stands for dying, for death. My daddy met the man who grew them, and when the man tried to run away my daddy shot him in the back.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ROALD DAHL

There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations we have seen in our society is the diminution of the sphere of the private. We must reasonably now all regard the fact that there are no secrets and nothing is private. Everything is public.

Maybe I shouldn't have told you––about it being electrical." She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change. "No, Rick said. "I'm glad to know. Or rather––" He became silent. "I'd prefer to know.

two brothers held together by what they can't share.

the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.

But there had always been ghosts in the mountains, everyone knew that.

the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them

Have you ever heard the term 'the secret commonwealth' ?" "No. What does it refer to?" "To the world of half-seen things and half heard whispers. To things that are regarded by clever people as superstition. To fairies, spirits, hauntings, things of the night.

There were mysteries enough without imagining more.

Debo ser discreto, no imponerle a la historia ni mi persona ni mis opiniones. Debo mantenerme sobrio durante las horas de trabajo; debo conservar la salud. No debo aceptar demasiados compromisos de otra índole: no se puede servir a dos señores. Debo seguir el consejo de la historia: hay secretos entre nosotros, y revelarlos sería incurrir en la más grosera de las deslealtades. Y debo estar dispuesto a aceptar determinadas obcecaciones y excentricidades de mi jefa.

Malcolm verbeet de pijn in zijn linkerarm en rommelde onder in de rugzak op zoek naar de alethiometer in de zwartfluwelen stof. Terwijl hij hem tevoorschijn haalde, viel het fluwelen lapje open en het gouden mechaniek glansde in het zwakke licht. 'Wat is dát?' vroeg Asriel. 'Een aardigheidje voor Lyra.' En Malcolm stopte het vlug tussen haar dekentjes.

because the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.