Quotes About Secrecy

The only time I met R.B. clandestinely was in the parish church, where we were married before two witnesses — it was the first and only time. I looked, he says, more dead than alive, and can well believe it, for I all but fainted on the way, and had to stop for sal volatile at a chemist's shop.

As any parent can tell you, it's better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They're probably doing something they don't want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they'll hide the evidence. I

She swallowed uncomfortable dryness at the unprecedented endearment, trying not to remember he'd been as affectionate to Mr. Priest when she was not meant to overhear.

She hadn't trusted anyone, not since Patience. Not since Moon Morrow's confidential secretary had turned out to be not so confidential after all.

One does not call down archangels in my city, Detective, if one cares to go unnoticed.

Fortunately for terrible spies, most people are terrible observers.

Morgan's face gave away nothing, smooth as a mirror.

Sometimes a thing can be true, and not for immediate sharing. That was, Connla had assured me more than once, how diplomacy worked.

The full story was not for strangers in bars.

A snake never shares what she knows unless it serves her own purposes.

It was Robert Poley who unhooded Will, much later in a candlelit room with an arrow slit that show only blackness but admitted the stink of the Thames.

The trick to hiding something, she'd told him once, is to put it right out in plain sight.

His life in general had been a neatly wrapped package of lies.

Sometimes people have a lot to lose by telling stories in certain ways, so they work very hard to hide the things that don't fit with their views of themselves,

Part of running a good business is not letting anyone know how bad things have really become.

Ask them about their sex lives or their drinking habits or the times they beat up on Granny and they may dodge around a little but eventually they'll tell you all about it - they're dying to tell. Get to the money question, though, and they start acting like you just tore off all their clothes in public. In some way, money is the cover we use for the most intimate parts of ourselves.

What I like about limousines is they have tinted windows, so no-one can see if you're snogging in the back seat.

Be silent now and do not tell your magic.

She believed in God for the same reason anybody does: it is unbearable to think that our private thoughts are truly private.

Luca knows we're following him." His voice, soft and deep, seemed to roll right through to my bones. "We don't have time for you to shimmy up and down drainpipes like you usually do." My coat dropped in a heap on the floor, and I suddenly felt able to breathe without the hot, sticky weight of the leather clinging to me. Maybe we didn't have time to . . . . "Did you say shimmy?" He nodded. "I never shimmy. I climb." "Then you and I have different views on what climbing is.

All right, you caught me. I'm secretly obsessed with you and spend all my free time writing about you in my journal. 'Dear Diary, today Will was an ass for the 467th day in a row. He's so dreamy

He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.

Oh, she was a crazy woman, privately.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.