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Quotes About Secrets

Secrets...are the very root of cool.
~ William Gibson, Spook Country
Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.
~ Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Oh, well, I can't tell you; it would be telling you the end. It's a one-character lip-syncing because in the early days, that's what my dad was doing.
~ Brian Henson
I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
OR am I the only warlock you know?" "No... but you are the only warlock we know who happens to dating a friend of ours.
~ Cassandra Clare
Do Mom and Dad know you're dating a homicidal lunatic? (Madaug) No, and if you tell them, I'll superglue your fingertips to your keyboard. (Eric)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
~ Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.
~ J. K. Rowling
Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
you're as adventurous as your secrets, as abhorrent as your secrets, as lonely as your secrets, as alluring as your secrets, as courageous as your secrets, as vacuous as your secrets, as lost as your secrets;
~ Philip Roth
Her ubiquity and his constipation, my mother flying in through the bedroom window, my father reading the evening paper with a suppository up his ass . . . these, Doctor, are the earliest impressions I have of my parents, of their attributes and secrets.
~ Philip Roth
He may make me feel like a fool, and like a woman who can do nothing, but what I can do I will. In my jewellery box is a dark locket of black tarnished silver and inside it locked in the darkness, I have his name: Richard Neville and that of George, Duke of Clarence, written in my blood on a piece of paper from the corner of my father's last letter. These are my enemies, I have cursed them. I will see them dead at my feet.
~ Philippa Gregory
on what he wants to say. I step back. So it is just as his wife fears, and she was
~ Philippa Gregory
A man may love her if he keeps her secret and lets her alone when she wants to bathe, and she may love him in return until he breaks his word, as men always do, and she sweeps him into the deeps, with her fishy tail, and turns his faithless blood to water.
~ Philippa Gregory
What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the secrets of others," the psychoanalyst
~ Unknown
Why had I chosen the path of the law? And why law of the kind that seemed to be connected to an unspoken family history? 'What haunts are not the dead, but the gaps left within us by the secrets of others,' the psychoanalyst Nicolas Abraham wrote of the relationship between a grandchild and a grandparent. The invitation from Lviv was a chance to explore those haunting gaps.
~ Unknown
There's only one way to find out," said Eddie, smiling slightly. Beth turned to her sister. "Spy on them?" "Exactly." Caroline began to feel all warm inside again, though not, she knew, with the Christmas spirit. Eddie and Beth were back in her corner again, making plans, and that was right where she wanted them to be.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
You won't be going home tonight - or ever, Trevor whispered. You've seen too much.
~ R.L. Stine
Would you love me if you knew I suck down liver blood in the supermarket?
~ R.L. Stine
We used to live in your house, George said. And now, guess what? Jerry added. Now we're dead in your house!
~ R.L. Stine
Behind me, Mom busily cleaned out the refrigerator, making room for the groceries Dad was out buying. I was dying to tell her about the scary mask. I wanted to show it to her. Maybe put it on and make her scream. But I knew she'd ask too many questions about where I bought it, and how much it cost, and how much of my allowance I used up to pay for it. All questions I couldn't answer.
~ R.L. Stine
You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.
~ Rachel Caine
Mind the dead man, my dear.
~ Rachel Caine