Quotes About Secrecy

If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes. Never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.

I am desperately looking the other way so that love won't see me.

She had navigated her parents' hostile waters with a child's discretion, learning to keep from one the confessions of the other. Learning to hide love.

This is the city of disguises.

I began to feel like Sarpi, that Venetian priest and diplomat, who said he never told a lie but didn't tell the truth to everyone.

our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hanging behind the door. I smuggled books in there to read them in secret, claiming constipation.

She grew in secret, away from their eyes. Outwardly she was obedient and loving, but inside she was feeding a hunger—

I wasn't so inclined to tell anyone else in my family about my plan. It was very new and felt about as vulnerable as a day-old mouse, its eyelids still sealed shut.

What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

The less manifest the work, the stronger: as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden, only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

I'm really starting to like all this spy work," Vee said. "When my normal life gets boring, all I have to do is sidle up next to you.

Actors and burglars work better at night.

Can you imagine getting a gun for a secret Santa? That is especially not a good idea if you work in a post office.

You can't trust girls. When I get a girlfriend I am not going to tell her where I live or work.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.