Quotes About Secrets

Beneath the smooth, familiar face of things is another that waits to tear the world in two.

It was the sort of secret I loved to discover, for it made me feel cynical and wise.

I do not plan to tell her. Telegonus, these are gods. You must keep your tricks close or you will lose everything.

Mr. Geard uncrossed his legs and purposely made his chair creak by shifting his position in it. One of the grand secrets of the man's magnetic power was that he forced himself to see nothing, to hear nothing, to think nothing of other people's affairs.

The world is full of damp rocks, with some very strange creatures hiding under them.

her dark eyes were like twin entrances to two deep caves. Nothing lived in those caves. Maybe something had, once upon a time. There were piles of picked bones back in there, some scribbling on the walls, and some grey ash where the fires had been.

It was a profession that fed on gossip.

But what was it?" "There was a woman upstairs who did illegal operations, abortions. . . . That was what stopped up the plumbing.

You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight—and smile at your own past sorrows.

We all have our little secrets, and as long as they're harmless, who really cares? With time, the secrets often go away and things don't matter anymore.

Hearing the truth is like grabbing smoke in our family," Joel said.

If Kenny Taft knew something, he took it to his grave.

Girls, murder trials, secret witnesses. Life was suddenly very complicated.

said, her eyes suddenly darting from David's to Wally's. "That's the deal. Who is it?" "There's a man two blocks over, used to play poker with Percy, croaked last year in the shower two months after my Percy passed. I know for a fact he was on Krayoxx." Wally's eyes were wild. "What's his name?" "You said cash, right? Five hundred cash.

Wait, how did she know I would be with you?" "It's a small town, Samantha.

He's also known to deal in stolen books, one of the few in that rather dark business.

Casket Letters I

Does anyone really know their friends? Close friends even? Can you really say, hand on heart, that you know what your pal's thinking, even if you've known them intimately all their life?

In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse when they saw her. Only a novelist could ever imagine such nonsense. (In part, it was because of her perverse ability to imagine anything that in this instance Ruth failed to imagine the obvious)

never spoke of it. He took the miracle to his grave. All Andrew ever said about the voyage was that a nun had taught him how to play mah-jongg. Something must have happened during one of their games.

It's Shakespearean, Bill; lots of the important stuff in Shakespeare happens offstage - you just hear about it.

William was quite the hand at Couperin's Messe pour les couvents, too, and Alice had been right about the Christmas section from Handel's Messiah. As for the seduced parishioner, the military man's young wife, Jack's mother told him little—only enough that the boy assumed his father hadn't been asked to leave Kastelskirken for flubbing a refrain.

Adolescence. Is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

The good gringo asked Lupe if she forgave him for sleeping with her mother. "Yes," Lupe said, "but we can't ever get married.