Quotes About Secrets

We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

This is the only time I will ever tell, I say to myself.

You feel like you know me, Cady, but you only know the me who comes here," he says. "It's--it's just not the whole picture. You don't know my bedroom with the window onto the airshaft, my mom's curry, the guys from school, the way we celebrate holidays.

It is good to know that once upon a time, there was Gat and me.

I understand our story now. We are criminals. A band of four.

So lie. Tell him the ones from the Boston house. The cream ones with the embroidery." It was easiest to tell her I would. And later, I told her I had. But Bess has asked Mirren to do the same thing, and neither one of us begged Granddad for the fucking tablecloths.

Don't worry,' she told him. 'I am exceptionally good at keeping secrets.' - Frankie Landau-Banks

She takes off rubber gloves and then kisses Mummy and hugs me too long and too hard, like she is trying to hug some deep and secret message.

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it's sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly there's never been quite such a fool who could fail pulling all the sky over him with one smile

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.

She disliked confidences, for they might lead to self-knowledge and to that king of terrors—Light.

She was like a woman of Leonardo da Vinci's, whom we love not so much for herself as for the things that she will not tell us.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.

It is I who am sorry," said Miss Lavish. "We literary hacks are shameless creatures. I believe there's no secret of the human heart into which we wouldn't pry.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

He has been sitting here looking at me more in sorrow than in anger for the better part of an hour, and I've made up my mind to one thing. I shall have no more secrets from the police.

Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.

We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors and looking them piteously in the eyes—die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

To travel in a foreign country is but to touch its surface. Under the guidance of a novelist of genius we penetrate to the secrets of a nation, and talk the very language of its citizens.

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books.

The most dangerous stories are the ones that never get told.