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Quotes About Secrecy

As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out.
~ Cassandra Clare
If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.
~ Cassandra Clare
Clary, what am I going to do ? My mom keeps bringing me food and I have to throw it out the window-I haven't been outside in two days, but I don't know how much longer I can go on pretending I have the flu. Eventually she's going to bring me to the doctor, and then what? I don't have a heartbeat . he'll tell her that I'm dead ." "Or write you up as a medical miracle," said Clary. -Simon and Clary, pg.216-
~ Cassandra Clare
There was a yell, but Magnus had already risen and closed the door before he could see Alec fall down the steps, as that was the sort of thing a man had to do in private.
~ Cassandra Clare
Yes, you bit me, yes, I kind of liked it, yes, let's not talk about it again, said Jace. You're not a vampire anymore. Focus.
~ Cassandra Clare
If you don't want them to find you, changing your last name seems a fairly elementary first step. Trust me, I'm an expert. I've watched a lot of spy movies.
~ Cassandra Clare
Oh, I don't know. I prefer to think that when they're at home, the Silent Brothers are much like us. Playing practical jokes in the Silent City, making toasted cheese-" "I hope they play charades," said Tessa Dryly. "It would seem to take advantage of their natural talents.
~ Cassandra Clare
That hedge provides almost complete privacy from cars and pedestrians, and I would bet he and his wife do it more than the national average.
~ Cassandra Danz
Do we have to tell him right now?" "Honey, if you go to upchucking of a morning before you can reach the privacy, he's gonna know anyway. May as well light his fuse when we're expecting the explosion.
~ Catherine Anderson
Ob-be mah-e-vah. " "What?" "Make room for me." He lifted the robe and joined her on the pallet. "Wha--you're not going to sleep with me?" " Nei che-ida-ha , I am very terribly cold." Loretta suspected he was lying, but she moved over, secretly glad to have him there, her mind shying away from the enormity of what that meant.
~ Catherine Anderson
Why are we camped so far from the others?" she asked, striving to keep her voice calm. A fire had leapt to life some distance away, and she could hear the faint sound of the others talking. "Your Aye-mee must not see," he replied in a clipped monotone. "See what?" she asked shakily. "The games we will play," he said softly.
~ Catherine Anderson
In great ceremony they entered the prison. They were never to be seen again.
~ Catherine Fisher
He raised his hands. They saw his coat was feathered like the wings of the swan when it dies, when it sings its secret song. And he opened the door that none of them had seen until now.
~ Catherine Fisher
This was the other thing Grace had noticed about grown-ups. In addition to being afraid of each other, it was hard to wring any information out of them. At least, if it was information about them. If it was about what kids ought to do, then they were nothing but words.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
like a mask, and in his other hand he held an open can of
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
There's a full moon tonight, so everything is Peary and shadowy but visible. It gives me the feeling of something stolen, something I wasn't supposed to be able to see. Some treasure not normally mine.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
We're kids. People keep stuff from kids. They think we're supposed to stay all pure or something until we grow up, and nothing should upset us. So they whisper about bad stuff behind our backs so we don't get upset. But it's so totally useless, because then at the same time they're always doing stuff that's really upsetting.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I will keep it safe for you," Saturday whispered, barely brave enough to say it.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
People who share a secret share a heart.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
War must always be done out of sight, or it shocks people and they stop immediately.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Can you imagine there being so many people that you could just murder one and nobody would know who did it right away?
~ Catherynne M. Valente