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Quotes About Secrecy

Sellaista henkilöä kohtaan tunnetaan aina kunnioitusta, joka osaa pitää suunsa kiinni. Luullaan että sellainen tietää paljon ja elää hirveän jännittävästi.
~ Tove Jansson
The Dweller Under the Sink had still not come out to eat but was probably living a secret and important life by himself.
~ Tove Jansson
Mats har ingen hemmeligheter. Det er derfor han er så hemmelighetsfull. Ingen må forstyrre ham, han må få være uforstyrret i en forenklet og ren verden.
~ Tove Jansson
Repeat after me,' said Moomintroll, "may the ground swallow me up may old hags rattle my dry bones, and may I never more eat ice-cream if I don't guard this secret with my life." Go on now.
~ Tove Jansson
It can be sad having a friend you've admired too much and seen too rarely and told too many things that you should have kept to yourself.
~ Tove Jansson
A great sadness gripped her. It can be sad having a friend you've admired too much and seen too rarely and told too many things that you should have kept to yourself.
~ Tove Jansson
Tell them it's a secret. Tell them they don't need to know.
~ Tove Jansson
She reached up to push back his thick brown hair and smiled. "I've wanted to do that for a very long time." "I won't tell you what I've wanted to do," he said with a grin. Her eyes widened. "Why, Mr. Barnett, I thought you to be a gentleman." His expression turned mischievous. "I am—that's why I'm not telling you.
~ Tracie Peterson
There was a unique pleasure in knowing a friend so well, Reynie reflected, rather like sharing a secret code.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
For it is a curious fact about secret meetings that a bond almost always forms among the participants, a bond that can feel both mysterious and powerful.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Nobody crossed the Directions, not even the police. Because the Directions worked for The Smoke. Reuben headed south, moving from alley to alley, keeping close to the buildings and ducking beneath windows.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
When the time comes to face McCracken, I don't want you anywhere near." "I agree with Milligan!" Sticky whispered. Milligan winked at him and quickly ushered the children back to the double doors.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
would this scrap of leather have been mortared into the wall where no one would ever see it? Was it some kind of secret sign?
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
I prefer to remain mysterious.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Reynie knew they would be almost impossible to see down here, yet he suddenly felt so sure of being spotted he could almost hear the Ten Men's voices echoing down to the landing, "Oh, chickies! Here chickies!" But the men didn't even glance in their direction, and an instant later had passed out of view.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Achati chuckled. "You may be surprised. Some might come in the hopes of being snatched away to a secret place ruled by exotic women.
~ Trudi Canavan
And what if they win?" Burn demanded. "They won't," Scarlet said. "But of course killing them ourselves is a solid backup plan." "Excuse me," Tsunami interrupted. "You know we're right over here, right? Don't you want to hatch your evil plans somewhere more secretive?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
That's kind of the point of being stealthy. And if he doesn't catch you, then you're not doing anything wrong, are you?" That sounded true. That sounded very true!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The whole point of a top secret invisible guard," Deathbringer said severely, "is for them to be invisible and secret. Therefore it is extremely unhelpful for certain queens to go pointing them out and discussing them loudly with the entire rainforest.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
You also should avoid talking to your targets, in case you find out that they're beautiful, sarcastic, and fascinating. For instance.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Mountain was being watched by too many
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The one that says 'Queen Wasp's top secret greenhouse keep out or I will dismember you and then kill you some more'?" Blue asked. "That's the one," Sundew said.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I think there's a lot of things we're both doing right now that we're not supposed to," she'd pointed out, sweeping her wing around the alcove where they were hiding. "Like falling in love?" he'd asked, taking her talons in his. "Now that," she'd whispered back, "is something you're definitely, absolutely not supposed to say.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Queen: a closely guarded secret
~ Tui T. Sutherland