Quotes About Secrets

she had two phones.

I didn't want to know that the monster that lived under your bed when you were a kid not only really is there but used to have a few beers with your dad.

Why do you tell me... so much? Luthe considered her. I tell you... some you need to know, and some you have earned the right to know, and some it won't hurt you to know-- He stopped.... Some things I tell you only because I wish to tell them to you.

Nothing?' said Corlath. 'I said there were two things. I have told you the first. You told us what you saw as you saw it. But this is the second thing: you spoke in the Old Tongue, what we call the Language of the Gods, that none knows any more but kings and sorcerers, and those they wish to teach it to. The language I just spoke to you, that you did not recognize- I was repeating the words you had said yourself, a moment before.

Born in a house where the door's shut tight Shadowy fingers on the curtains at night Cherry tree blossom head high snow A busy main road where I wasn't to go

Everyone wants a revelation, but no one wants to be revealed.

I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.

Corwin," he stated then, "it pleases me more than I can say to see you die not knowing something that means that much for you.

All scheming princes must keep a few secrets.

having warned the children not to mention the nose

It is almost inconceivable that he did not suspect at moments that Archbold had learned some of his tricks from Senior.

1791, the U.S. government granted patents for Parkinson's flax mill, even though he had admitted that they were "improvements upon the mill or machinery . . . in Great Britain."32 Clearly, the U.S. government condoned something that, in modern phraseology, could be termed industrial espionage. Building upon this precedent, Hamilton put the full authority of the Treasury behind the piracy of British trade secrets.

She glanced at him. He smiled. "The Army paid them all off

Night School

4. Correr a ciegas (Running Blind)

21. Escuela nocturna (Night School)

Why didn't you tell us?" She shrugged. Gallic, feminine, obstinate. "What was to tell?" she said.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

The Yishuv covered itself with glory. Just as in World War I the British glorified the Arab revolt—so they tried to hide the efforts of the Yishuv in World War II. No country gave with so much vitality to the war. But the British Government did not want the Jews to use this as a bargaining point for their homeland aspirations later on. Whitehall and Chatham House kept the Yishuv's war effort one of the best secrets of the war.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

except a tiny golden key

Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?

I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.