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Quotes About Secrets

I was aware of the treacherous air vents above us, conducting the sounds we were making upstairs. Maybe dad was listening. Or maybe, just like Kevin, he was unaware of anything but the pleasure spurting up out of his body and into mine.
~ Edmund White
Is that Rococo, Pascal?" Chrissie said as she stood by the missus's desk, peering into the nests of pigeonholes and cubbies. "Oh, don't touch there or you'll be shot," Pascal said, because it was where the missus kept her souvenirs, love letters from men before him, locks of hair, dried shamrock, and the words of songs that she rehearsed for her parties. Her family was musical
~ Edna O'Brien
George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am.
~ Edward Albee
Honey: I know these people ...
~ Edward Albee
Que diga amor? Love? Hate? Speak to me of things the world has yet to truly understand, of the instant meaning of each bird's call, of a child's secret thoughts in her mother's womb, of the measured rhythmical time of every man and woman's breath, of the true colors of the inside of the moon, of the larger miracles in small things, the deeper mysteries.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
~ Albert Einstein
Again and again he used to do this. Lad seemed to enjoy it, for he would stand at grave attention, as though listening to something the coon was confiding to him. "I'm sure he's telling Laddie a secret when he does that," said the Mistress. "Nonsense!" scoffed the Master. "We're not living in fable-land. More likely the pesky coon is hunting Lad's ear for fleas. Likelier still, it's just a senseless game they've invented.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
All truly dogmatic religions have issued from the Kabalah and return to it: everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all the illuminati, Jacob Boehme, Swedenborg, Saint-Martin, and others, is borrowed from the Kabalah; all the Masonic associations owe it their Secrets and Symbols.
~ Albert Pike
El pasado, creo, es mucho más difícil de ocultar que el presente.
~ Alberto Fuguet
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust.
~ Aldrich Ames
stumbling around I speak to keep from betraying a secret
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Por qué será que en esta familia nunca nos decimos las cosas que realmente importan?
~ Alejandro Palomas
El agua de Venecia esconde ya demasiada oscuridad y en el limo de la laguna no hay espacio para más. Venecia se levanta sobre los secretos y errores de los que quisieron venir aquí a olvidar y la ciudad se hunde sobre ellos.
~ Alejandro Palomas
A benefit of friendship is knowing whom to tell secrets to.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
Quando dunque un amico si procura quella consolazione di deporre un segreto nel seno d'un altro, dà a costui la voglia di procurarsi la stessa consolazione anche lui.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.
~ Alethea Kontis
Wells played God in the most elemental way: Who shall live and who shall die, who shall reach the end of his days and who shall not, who by water and who by fire, who by sword and who by beast . . . But snatching the world's secrets from their graves gave Shafer his own taste of absolute power.
~ Alex Berenson
wondered, could someone love you if you didn't tell him the whole truth?
~ Alex Flinn
I hate first dates. I made the mistake of telling my date a lie about myself, and she caught me. I didn't think she'd actually demand to see the bat cave.
~ Alex Reed
Poison, in my experience, is always hidden; it seems to me we never know its color.
~ Alexander Chee
But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Whatever is decoded dies
~ Alexis Stamatis
Le coeur le plus aimant n'est qu'une vaste armoire. On fait deux tours, et puis voilà.
~ Alfred de Musset
I'm a huge James Bond fan and watched the movies growing up.
~ Taran Killam