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Quotes About Secrets

Relationships are monuments build on lies
~ Dan Savage
Her father didn't know the half of her problems. Nobody did. Nobody ever would. She couldn't let anyone find out just how crazy she was, the secret she kept. She would fight her way out of that dark hole somehow. She had to, or it would swallow her for good.
~ Unknown
The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn't imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we'd done? It would ruin everything. It would ruin their image of me; it would ruin every thought they'd ever had about who I was. It would be another death.Another loss. Another miscarriage.
~ Dana Reinhardt
remember someone saying that we were
~ Daniel Ellsberg
Wu is seen taking a breath as if to speak . . . but the former taikonaut lets it out without saying anything. Her silence in this moment was surely spurred by conflicting desires—her duty to her team on one hand, versus her duty to maintain the secrets of her homeland on the other. With every word tantamount to a chess move, her decision to take no action here would prove a costly blunder. And an unnecessary one.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
At every turn, this provocative work unlocks deep secrets about how nature and nurture forge a uniquely human obsession
~ Daniel J. Levitin
I want to pass on my secrets to people who are going to say, 'I have realised that I love baking, and now I'm going to make my bread and sell it at the local farmers' market,' or who might say, 'I am going to use the local Post Office in our village to sell my cakes.' I want to give them that little bit of fire.
~ Paul Hollywood
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
~ Bernard Tschumi
Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets.
~ Chuck Grassley
If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.
~ Joyce Maynard
There are some episodes in the history of Israel that are still kept under the strongest secrecy thick veil possible. Some of them are 40 years old, 50 years old, and are still under thick, thick secrecy, and anyone violating this secrecy would be thrown into jail himself.
~ Ronen Bergman
What is violent about 'Supari' is the thought that the guy who is sitting next to you in college could be already sucked into a world of crime.
~ Uday Chopra
People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.
~ Trixie Mattel
When Russia's intelligence agencies obtained some of the National Security Agency's secrets about its own cyberweapons, it appeared to do so by manipulating a virus protection program sold by Kaspersky, a Russian firm.
~ David E. Sanger
In couples therapy, therapists talk about the difference between privacy (spaces in people's psyches that everyone needs in healthy relationships) and secrecy (which stems from shame and tends to be corrosive). Carl Jung called secrets "psychic poison,
~ Lori Gottlieb
privacy (spaces in people's psyches that everyone needs in healthy relationships) and secrecy (which stems from shame and tends to be corrosive). Carl Jung called secrets
~ Lori Gottlieb
When an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.
~ Unknown
Why did you tell me all this?" "So if I die, you'd know not to come looking for me when you get to heaven.
~ Lorraine Heath
Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.
~ Louis Auchincloss
I wonder what they'd do if they knew the truth about my high life and my low life and all the demons in between.
~ Louis Zamperini
Houses are like people, Agent Lemieux. They have secrets. I'll tell you something I've learned.' Armand Gamache dropped his voice so that Agent Lemieux had to strain to hear. 'Do you know what makes us sick, Agent Lemieux?' Lemieux shook his head. Then out of the darkness and stillness he heard the answer. 'It's our secrets that make us sick.
~ Louise Penny
Henri kept everything important in his heart. He mostly kept cookies in his head.
~ Louise Penny
Of all the things we keep inside the worst are secrets. The things we are so ashamed of, so afraid of, we need to hide them even from ourselves. Secrets lead to delusion and delusion leads to lies, and lies create a wall. Our secrets make us sick because they separate us from other people. Keep us alone. Turn us into fearful, angry, bitter people. Turn us against others, and finally against ourselves.
~ Louise Penny
Anyone so damaged as to cause this much harm led a life full of secrets and full of enemies.
~ Louise Penny