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Quotes About Secrecy

Lying is easy. But it's lonely.""What do you mean?""When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?""Nothing, " I say."Exactly.
~ Victoria Schwab, The Archived
Sometimes, to protect a secret we will say it so openly that most will not suspect the truth of what we are saying.
~ Donna Goddard
When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The perfect killer has no identity.
~ Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
~ Thomas Sowell
Mrs Slagg placed her finger at her lips and gave a smile which it would be impossible to describe. It was a mixture of the cunning and the maudlin.
~ Mervyn Peake
Sammy performed the rapid series of operations - which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes, and the swallowing of a secret map on the point of capture by enemy troops - that passed, in his mother's kitchen, for eating.
~ Michael Chabon
for someone or something that no one will discuss
~ Michael Chabon
Take it from me, a secret is a heavy kind of chain.
~ Michael Chabon
You know what they say: the FBI doesn't share. It eats like an elephant and shits like a mouse.
~ Michael Connelly
habérmela contado a mí primero, porque esto podría hacerte sonar como una especie de chiflado vengativo.
~ Michael Connelly
Bosch turned off the screen and sat there thinking about how the truth was always manipulated by those in power. It bothered him to know things that shouldn't be kept secret.
~ Michael Connelly
fucking prosecutor put a sleeper on the jury." I thought a moment about telling him but decided against it. "At the moment it's better if I don't tell
~ Michael Connelly
messenger boy here. He wasn't supposed to find out
~ Michael Connelly
Is somebody in there now?" "Yeah, a guy. Stormy Monday took it." "That's the name he uses?" "Yeah. People 'round here use a lot of different names, you know? They've left their other names behind." "Got it. Let's go talk to Stormy. I've got to look inside." "He's not a happy guy when you wake him up. They call him Stormy Monday but he's kind of a dick every single day.
~ Michael Connelly
We called it the black echo.
~ Michael Connelly
who was really with him that night?" "I'm not telling you. It's the same risk today that it was back then. He's still a star. I'm not going to ruin his career." "We would keep it confidential. We wouldn't even put it on paper." "No. Nothing stays a secret forever, but if I told you, it would be a betrayal.
~ Michael Connelly
The FBI is plugged in with the NSA and the whole federal alphabet soup of agencies. They're cutting-edge when it comes to this. They're doing things the public has no idea about.
~ Michael Connelly
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~ Michael Cunningham
You might very well think that - I couldn't possibly comment.
~ Michael Dobbs
Two thousand million people in the world, and the one who has to decide their fate is is the only one who's always hidden from me.
~ Michael Frayn
They like to get away with stuff, and they want a small group of players to know it too. Shooting drug dealers and taking their cash, inventing evidence, lying to make a case. They like the wink, they like thinking they're inside something and everyone else is on the outside looking in. Hell, you're the psychologist, you explain it. But it has
~ Michael Gruber
they could take you off shuddering in your sleep. No one who heard it was able to smile that bitter, secret survivor's smile that was the reflex to almost all news of disaster. It was too awful even for that.
~ Michael Herr