Quotes About Secrets

She had learned the greatest trick of the interrogator. Remain silent, and they confessed everything just to fill the chasm of silence.

Minnie said, "Better not to ask." "That's our family in a nutshell." "You got that right.

A life was a long struggle to come to terms with things and to keep some things from others.

No hay nadie que no se lleve un secreto a la tumba, y no hay mayor gloria para un secreto que morir sin haber sido desvelado. La sinceridad, llevada al fanatismo, solo puede conducir a la destrucción.

Night hath a thousand eyes.

It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me

I pick up my knitting and wind the yarn around my fingers so I can finish the row. The needles whisper softly as they slide against each other, as if telling secrets.

I don't think it's right to unburden your own heart by laying the load on someone else's. Some secrets are better left untold.

This Captain Rhal of yours sounds like someone worth knowing," Micum said. "I've thought so ever since you told how he let you go that night." "Micum told me something of your trip, but I'd like to hear your version of it," said Kari. "Did he really fancy Seregil, Alec?" Alec grinned. "I half fancied him myself, when he was all prettied up.

I can't tell you how nice it is to hear someone talking like the voices in my head," Abigail said, linking arms with Jessica and heading toward the battlement door. "You'll have to come visit—a lot. Miles will love it." "Did you tell him about me?" "He guessed." "He didn't!" "Not much gets past the man.

Catty had tattooed the crescent moon and star on Jimena's arm. Jimena also had two teardrops tattooed under her eye. Her other tattoos, remnants from her gang days, were hidden under her clothes. She, too, had a gift. She received premonitions about the future.

She told Catty about Serena's late-night visit while they made breakfast burritos with red and green chili peppers, eggs, and cheese, and drank champurrados , a frothy mixture of water, cornmeal, chocolate, and cinnamon.

The Thirty-nine Steps.

Their secrets inadvertently sidestepped each other, unaware, like blindfolded elephants crossing the tiny room.

Make no mistake, those who are the most eager to harshly criticize others are often the ones most desperate to keep hidden their own secret sins or unresolved pain.

those who are the most eager to harshly criticize others are often the ones most desperate to keep hidden their own secret sins or unresolved pain.

Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

What sinks of iniquity these little villages can be.

It was a fitting animal for a priest. Cats guard the secrets of the otherworld and are liaisons with mystic realms. Protectors of esoteric knowledge, cats can open the gates through which a priest can see the future and gain insight.

Isabeau had a garden insider of her.

Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.

It was my first lesson. Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.

I have walked in the blackest deeps. You cannot guess what spells I have cast, what poisons I have gathered to protect myself against you, how your power may rebound upon your head. Who knows what is in me? Will you find out?

At least, I thought in those early days, once I cast a spell, I would not have to learn it again. But even that was not true. However often I had used an herb before, each cutting had its own character. One rose would give up its secrets if it were ground, another must be pressed, a third steeped. Each spell was a montain to be climbed anew. All I could carry with me from last time was the knowedge that it could be done.