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Quotes About Secrets

Readers are keepers of secrets: as an illicit page is turned, as a dangerous truth is inferred. The pulse quickens. Something explosive ticks between the lines. There is an intake of breath; the voyeur's silent flare of recognition. All the while, his or her face is impassive, unremarkable even, because like all subversives, readers lead careful double lives.
~ Alison MacLeod
There are many things that people will do in the dark that they will not do in light.
~ Alistair MacLeod
We'd die here, old together, safe with each other's secrets. We were each other's juvenilia
~ Allan Gurganus
keeping secrets will tear you up inside.
~ ALLISON BRENNAN
Once I entered the house late at night and overheard Mark and my mom having sex by the fireplace. She was moaning like she was flying on a magic carpet. I almost puked into the kitchen sink. I would give anything for her to dump him. Jade's mom says it will never happen because women over 45 have a better chance of getting blown up by a terrorist than finding a man. Haha! If I ever get that desperate, I will buy a giant vibrator and never leave the house.
~ Allison Burnett
Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex
~ Ally Carter
I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.
~ Ally Carter
Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex
~ Ally Carter
Somebody knows.
~ Ally Carter
Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.
~ Ally Carter
Note to self: Rachel Morgan is a totally awesome liar.
~ Ally Carter
Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare. 'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was supposed to booby-trap the doors?' 'I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service,' Townsend said, indignant. 'I do not do booby traps.
~ Ally Carter
The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.
~ Ally Carter
Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.
~ Ally Carter
The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.
~ Ally Carter
I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two.
~ Ally Carter
We're going to be okay." Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.
~ Ally Carter
That's the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.
~ Ally Carter
I also packed explosives." -Liz
~ Ally Carter
Kat picked up a folder labeled Senior. "What are these? Bank records?" She did a double take, looking at Hale. "Did your dad really pay two million dollars to the campaign to elect Ross Perot?" "I..." Hale said, stumbling for words and thumbing through another file. "Wow. I guess my cousin Charlotte isn't really my cousin." "Don't worry," Kat said. "It looks like there might be a kid in Queens who is.
~ Ally Carter
Tell me Zach." I don't know if it was the wind or the adrenaline, but I shivered. "And don't lie to me.
~ Ally Carter
I suppose you should her it from me that I met your mother" he smiled a litte sadly. "well. . . When I say met I mean one time I tried to kill her." "Do me a favor" Zach's voice was low and dark and dangerous. "Next time don't just try
~ Ally Carter
That's for me to know, and for you to find out.
~ Ally Carter
When Hale's hand disappeared inside his tuxedo jacket, Macey wasn't exactly sure what he'd find inside the pocket. It could have been another phone or a breath mint. Really, nothing would have surprised her. Well nothing except... "Is that an earbud?" she whispered. He smiled. "Are you on comms?" "Shhh," he told her softly.
~ Ally Carter