Quotes About Secrecy

No helicopters are aloft. If boats ply the lake, they do so without running lights.

There are numerous tools with which to conceal the truth, although nothing has been quite as effective and reassuring as six or eight or ten feet of compacted earth.

If the installation is under the auspices of the EPA, the CDC, the NSA, the CIA, or some federal black-op outfit

or some federal black-op outfit with no name, that is more problematic.

he has no fingerprints.

Like his more engaging story, mine suggests that the world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time

Not every case requires him to kill, but when he does, he kills known murderers whom the law will not touch or the courts acquit for one reason or another. Even though he is supported by a formidable organization with deep resources, which remains a mystery to him, his fingerprints have been removed to protect him. It's better to leave no prints behind.

Surely Dorian Purcell has secretly authorized this extreme measure, his idea of a fail-safe.

Shivering pleasantly, Vince plucked the car keys off the floor where the dead man had dropped them, went into the garage, and opened the Cadillac's trunk, being careful not to touch any surface on which he might leave a clear fingerprint. The trunk was empty. Good. He carried Weatherby's corpse out of the laundry room, put it in the trunk, closed and locked the lid

Those in the Mysterium had different views about to whom and when the truth of them should be revealed. Their

Charles Mainway

Libby has to trust her only friend, even though she doesn't know Sarah's true name.

These days, "science" is often nothing more than a cover story.

she, too, lived behind a brick wall, only hers was cleverly hidden behind a bright smile and effervescent personality.

Scotty leaned across the table and whispered in a voice Travis wasn't supposed to have heard but did. "We've got to do something quick before Uncle Travis poisons us

That is the bane of speakeasy life. You ring up your friend the next morning to find out whether he is still alive.

last person besides her husband to see

We can't always tell the whole story about ourselves.

of the invasion forces who were to be sealed into them and no longer allowed to communicate with the outside world once they had been briefed in the parts they were to play.

Involuntary euthanasia – This is the most controversial way of hastened death, yet it goes on widely and secretly everywhere. Only the Dutch admit to it. It is sometimes necessary when a patient is suddenly, unexpectedly dying in agony, cannot communicate their wishes, and so the attending doctor administers a merciful end.

If you have to help a person die, say nothing. Let the police do their own sleuthing.

On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

A strange thought occurs to me. There is of course no point of similarity between yourself and Stapleton in terms of circumstance or character. And yet there is one peculiar commonality. Both you and Stapleton know. And for your separate reasons, cannot or will not speak of it to anyone. The odd result of this is that I feel quite free in the company of either one of you, in a way that I cannot be free with any other man.

But then, I didn't think I'd tell them you were here." "What makes you think they don't know?" I asked, beginning to feel rather hollow, despite my earlier resolve to brazen it out. I cast a quick glance at the window, but