Quotes About Secrecy

But now they were all fifteen, there was a lot they did not tell each other.

I don't know what to do, and if I did know what to do I wouldn't tell you, because if I had to tell you today then I'd have to tell you tomorrow, and when I'm gone you'd have to get somebody else to tell you.

Their first free and frantic caresses had been preceded by a brief period of strange craftiness, of cringing stealth.

Basie would lie on the mattress and talk endlessly, sometimes drinking from a bottle of Murree's whisky he'd bring with him, bought from one of the clandestine bars in Heer where there were locked cages for female drinkers, to prevent them from being sexually assaulted by the inebriated male clientele, as well as to stop the drunk women from killing every man in sight.

The mouse is safest when she doesn't leave footprints in the butter.

Don't talk about that!" cried Celia so sharply that María hugged the pillow and stared goggle-eyed at the woman. "Don't say anything about El Patrón! Shoo!

Matt kept himself from shining the flashlight on him.

According to these new rules, the U.S. government was free to use the methods it had developed in the 1950s under layers of secrecy and deniability—only now it was out in the open, without fear of prosecution.

And on the wedding contract, before me and my parents and the rabbi, and Wanda and Sergey for our witnesses, in silver ink he signed his name. But I won't ever tell you what it is.

CUIDADO CON SU MASCOTA SECRETA».

Galina would not know where they came from; Palmira would not. Better not to know. To them they could be jewels, rich and fine, that someone had bought and paid for with gold and not with blood. They would have gone far enough away from the cruelty that made them, and then they could be only beautiful.

incomprehensible machinery working somewhere out of sight, keeping us all alive, suspended out of the world.

Y cómo me ves tú a mí? —Como un misterio. —Ese es el cumplido más raro que me han hecho nunca. —No es un cumplido. Es una amenaza. —¿Y eso? —Los misterios hay que resolverlos, averiguar qué esconden. —A lo mejor te decepcionas al ver lo que hay dentro. —A lo mejor me sorprendo. Y tú también.

Do you like mysteries?" I nodded. I think if she'd asked me whether I liked arsenic or cyanide on toast I would have given her the same answer. "Are

Cada um vive a fé à sua maneira, dizia - lhe. Mas não conte a ninguém que eu disse isto, ou mandam-me para as missões a ver se alguma anaconda me engole.

Ik dankte de hemel dat er geen getuigen waren van mijn blos, die voldoende zou zijn geweest om een sigaar op een halve meter afstand te doen ontbranden.

Un secreto vale lo que aquellos de quienes tenemos que guardarlo.

And how do you see me?" "Like a mystery." "That's the strangest compliment anyone has ever paid me." "It's not a compliment. It's a threat." "What do you mean?" "Mysteries must be solved, one must find out what they hide." "You might be disappointed when you see what's inside." "I might be surprised. And you, too.

He would stare at you without saying a word, and you wouldn't know what he was thinking, and so, like an idiot, you'd tell him things it would have been better to keep to yourself.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink," said the cardinal, as he spread poison on the knife edge by the light of a candelabra.

Tudja, az ostobák fecsegnek, a gyávák titkolóznak, a bölcsek pedig végighallgatnak másokat.

En las manos equivocadas, éste podría ser un instrumento para el mal." Edmond lo examinó fascinado e intrigado. "Es una gota de sangre del último dragón," murmuró el emperador. "El secreto de la inmortalidad.

She said that someone had been following her and she was afraid it was the man called Coubert, who was trying to get hold of the books to destroy them.

Éste es un mundo de sombras, y la magia es un bien escaso.