Quotes About Secrets

Interestingly, the Llewelyn Davies boys were first cousins of gothic novelist Daphne du Maurier, whose own rather gothic childhood is a story in itself, and the reason du Maurier would not permit the publication of her childhood diaries until fifty years after her death.

I suppose we were merely on loan in each other's lives; these last years have already broken their secrets, have already gone out ahead and beyond us, reaching their conclusions: the present was beautiful in my not knowing. There are some sufferings as crimson and fallen, vibrant as autumn's tremblings.

In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.

But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing.

I've fallen for the one person I shouldn't have. For the boy who broke Mary's heart. For Rennie's one true love. For Alex's best friend. It has to end here. Now.

My mom adored her. She called Belly her secret daughter. She looked forward to seeing her all year. Steven, even though he gave her a hard time, he was really protective of her. Everyone took care of Belly, she just didn't know it. She was too busy looking at Conrad.

My sister is coming back in a few weeks. And I have a fake boyfriend I just cheated on.

Everything in my room was old and faded, but I loved that about it. It felt like there might be secrets in the walls, in the four-poster bed, especially in that music box.

When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want

I just hope we get away with it.

I feel… like maybe I don't know him like I thought I did. I feel like I can't trust him ever again." "Keeping a secret like that from the person you love is probably the worst part," Anika said. "You don't think the actual cheating is the worst part?" "No. I mean, yeah, that is horrible. But he should have just told you. It was turning it into a secret that gave it power.

Around ten he sends a text that says, Sorry something came up. I can't come over tonight. He doesn't say where he is or what he's doing, but I already know. He's with Genevieve.

When I write, I hold nothing back. I write like he'll never read it. Because he never will. Every secret thought, every careful observation, everything I've saved up inside me, I put it all in the letter. When I'm done, I seal it. I address it, and then I put it in my teal hatbox.

You can't be close to someone, not truly, with secrets in between you.

In the bottom of the desk drawer I found an old composition notebook from my Harriet the Spy days. It was colored in pink and green and yellow highlighter. I'd followed the boys around for days, taking notes in it until I drove Steven crazy and he told Mom on me.

Ms. Davenport loves being in on student drama. She calls it having her finger on the pulse, but really, she's just a gossip. If you give her an opening, she'll burrow in for as much dirt as she can.

just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing.

You know everything about me, even this,

Now it's your turn to tell me something I don't know about you," John says. I laugh. "You already know more than most people. My love letter made sure of that.

After lights out Charlie and Fidelio went to the bathroom

GABRIEL SILK

What Rilke said: I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

We had told people. We had to untell them. You did it so I wouldn't have to speak.

My mother told me once that each thing, each being, has two names. One is the name by which it is known in this world and the other is a secret name that it keeps hidden. But if you call it by this name it cannot help but respond. This is the name by which the creature was known in the Garden of Eden.