Quotes About Secrets

The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.

The only thing I don't divulge is the truth about Mother killing little Carolina. I don't know why. Perhaps I sense he's not ready to know that just yet. Maybe he never will. People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can suprise you. I talk to my brother as I never have before, trusting in him, letting the river listen to my confessions on its path toward the sea. ~pg 693

People can live with only so much honesty. And sometimes, people can surprise you.

Yes, what's the good of a messenger you can't understand?" Felicity complains. "Why, just once, can't one of these haunts simply say, 'Hello, Gemma, frightfully sorry to bother you, but I thought you might like to know that Mrs. X is the one to watch out for—she'll eat your heart. Cheerio!

Can I tell you a secret? I don't like ghosts very much. They are terrible people.

they talked, too, of their futures, as if they could shape the glittering course of their destinies with secret confessions offered like prayers to the room's benevolent hush.

Dreams are where we will meet again. In love, in yearning, in fear. Dreams, like countries, are ideas: all reality gestates first inside a dream. Dreams are information for those who read their tea leaves come morning. They are tiny little maps of souls. Of every secret, we push aside while we are awake.....Dreams know you better than you know yourself.

Underground—which had been

Some things should stay mysteries," said Metzli. "The moon would not be the same moon, if one side did not remain in the dark.

Spies and parents never sleep.

I didn't stop to think about how my normal had never been so great in the first place. And I was a mess. I'd been holding my secrets inside for so long, I had lost all sense of perspective. If we can do what we're meant to do, I think we can make them stop.

You know nothing about me, Falco, she muttered in a low voice. I whipped back, more intensely than I meant, But oh my soul, I wanted to find out!

We all wear masks. And the more we have to hide, the more accomplished the veneer.

Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do a few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.

Basically, that snapshot the smart fridge took to help you figure out what fruit to buy might also include a view of your ex-husband's dead body, which you'd planned on burying later in the day with the shovel Alexa had ordered for you from Amazon.

Where are these perfect families? Is it yours? Your friend's, your neighbor's? I don't think you can just point one out. The ones we're most likely to admire are simply the ones with the best-kept secrets. No, the real perfect families, they have warts and bruises and scars. They had to screw up and admit their mistakes. They had to do everything wrong so they could learn how to do few things right. They had to hate so they could know what to love.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears.

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.

To know the secrets of Life, we must first become aware of their existence.