Quotes About Secrecy

D'Artagnan looked for some tapestry behind which he might hide himself, and felt an immense inclination to crawl under the table.

I, who was looking on, an eager and curious spectator - I, who was watching the working of this mournful tragedy - I, who like a wicked angel laughing at the evil men committed protected by secrecy (a secret is easily kept by the rich and powerful), I am in my turn bitten by the serpent whose tortuous course I was watching, and bitten to the heart.

I, who, like a wicked angel was laughing at the evil men committed, protected by secrecy . . . I am, in my turn, bitten by the serpent whose tortuous course I was watching, and bitten to the heart!

Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealing and enables the freebooters of finance to make illicit fortunes.

This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell

When she reached 44 Greenwich Avenue she went inside alone, and only the crow knew that it was possible for a woman to claim to have no heart at all and still cry as though her heart would break

Lucy Green couldn't stop reading. She was a secret reader...

You don't hide what you think is beautiful. You hide what is broken. You hide when you're a monster.

Oh, you're moonlight, he'd said. Harder to see, but there for those who look.

She never told anyone what he did to her on a nightly basis because she was afraid of him, but also because she was worth nothing to herself.

Because what someone reads in a library is nobody else's business.

Don't you tell your father a thing," she'd warn me. "It would kill him. You'd do better if you kept your mouth shut.

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

hector him like this from now on, when I could get him alone.

These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell...

I would do exactly what you are doing: I would talk to everyone I needed to, I would not tell too many people his name. When I was sure, she said, I would find a quiet way, and I would kill him.

She was in the downstairs bathroom sneaking bites from the macaroons my father's firm always sent us for Christmas. She ate them greedily they were like suns bursting open in her mouth.

Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was an immaculate anonymity.

And when they spy on us let them discover us loving

The mysterious inner life that she had imagined gave them a secret joy was simply a full knowledge of the fact that they were dead, living just enough for their children.

You better not never tell nobody but god.

Never reveal your hand, Anna, he advised. If my cap knew my mind, I would throw it into the fire. It was one of the most revealing things he had ever said to her.

there was daunting poverty, and there was haunting wealth and the narrator warned her to keep to herself

You really saw some? Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, They really...exist? Liz, I whispered back, they're not unicorns. No, Bex said flatly, they're boys. And they're...good.