Quotes About Secrecy

That was the problem with monsters. Sometimes they looked just like everybody else.

You're no killer. He has no idea what I am.

If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location.

Jasper," said Call. "Tell me something, and please answer honestly." Jasper nodded. "Is this the Assembly's new strategy for torturing me until I give them information?

Is something going on?" - Celia "No!" Aaron and Jasper said at the same time. "Sure, that's not suspicious or anything.

beneath his heavy wool cloak. He does not turn when I

Alex is the one... He's the spy. - Call

He knew what he was, what depths of depravity and cruelty he had plumbed, what ambitions drove him. He prided himself on knowing those things—but that didn't mean he needed anyone else to see them as well.

If I am undressed, he will know me.

She made her voice as firm as possible. "Don't let them catch you." He hesitated, clearly surprised by her words. Then he smiled again, inclining his head in a shallow bow, acknowledging everything she'd left unsaid. "Traveling with you was a delight worth any delay, but I can delay no longer.

I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn't have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.

I tell people everything. People only believe what they can handle. That's how I know who to trust.

I am no closer to finding a way to get out of here and no clearer on my father's plan. The only thing I am closer to is getting caught.

Pride is for knights, I remind myself, not for spies.

Lying is so easy here. I can do it all day long and never be caught.

what's so great about lying is the not knowing.

We trade kisses in the darkness, blurred by exhaustion.

However secretive his nature, however foolish his reasons for loving his father, I like that he does.

Nobody outside a marriage can really know what's happening on the inside of it.

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide.

Ah! love is a mystery; it can only live hidden in the depths of the heart. You say, even to your friend, 'Behold her whom I love,' and there is an end of love.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable, without being entered on the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish women are capable of following a plan of this kind for seven years in order to gratify their fancies

Afterward, I felt it had been wrong not telling the family about the baby, because then I wanted them to know about the miscarriage, so that they knew the baby had existed. But when I told people, they seemed more interested in the fact that I'd kept the pregnancy a secret. They felt they'd been tricked. They said things like "Oh, I did wonder that day when you didn't drink at the Easter BBQ but you said you just didn't feel like drinking!" In other words, LIAR.