Quotes About Secrecy

often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you'd never guess from looking at me.

Ah, the smell of mystery and dark doings, of skulduggery and revenge. The meat of a good tale.

She is the darkness.

Over coming days, when I sneaked down to the Buskin, he revealed everything recorded where he appears as the focal character. I do not think I have met many men who disgusted me more. Nastier

An entire week of drawn shades was evidence enough to send her flying around with reports that as soon as it got dark they pulled their shades down and put on the lights. Heads nodded in knowing unison—a definite sign. If doubt was voiced with a "But I pull my shades down at night too," a whispered "Yeah, but you're not that way" was argument enough to win them over.

He's right, actually. I'm an awesome patient. As soon as I hear him on the stairs, I spit out the three capsules I stored in my cheek and bury them in the soil of the geranium. That's what the thing's dying of—a drug overdose.

only nobody knows about it but us.

That's why Priscus is wisest of all: silence cannot be judged. Silence masks all things or no thing. Only Priscus can tell us what his silence conceals, but since he won't, we suspect him great.

I like to have a secret love affair, a hidden life, something to lie about.

They had to tread carefully for a lifetime, never speak without thinking twice: they must watch each other like enemies because they loved each other so much. They would never know what it was not to be afraid of being found out. It occurred to him that perhaps after all one could atone even to the dead if one suffered for the living enough.

It wouldn't have done to cable the details of his true career, that before he died he had been responsible for at least fifty deaths

Was the secret of lasting youth known only to the criminal mind?

It would be better if I called you,' she told me, and caution, I thought, caution, how well she knows how to conduct an affair like this, and I remembered again the stair that always - 'always' was the phrase she had used -squeaked.

Love is not wrong, but love should be happy and open -- it is only wrong when it is secret, unhappy . . . It can be more unhappy than anything but the loss of God. It is the loss of god. You don't need penance, my child, you have suffered quite enough.

a military base, to check out the story.

Getting rid of a body did not get easier as he got more practiced at it.

He labels as evil those parents who present a normal social persona to shield the harm they do in private. They serve their own needs and desires at the expense of their relatives, especially their children.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

The first rule of black business everywhere is: never let anyone know what you're thinking. Didier's corollary to the rule was: always know what others think of you.

we spoke to none but the few we trusted with our wounded lives.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

The first rule of black business everywhere is: never let anyone know what you're thinking. Didier's corollary to the rule was: always know what the other thinks of you.