Quotes About Secrecy

Noi solchiamo i meandri della storia. Noi siamo le ombre di cui le cronache non parleranno. Noi non esistiamo.

I have a repugnance to be known and understood by everybody. I do not like to have my feelings or my thoughts every one's property.

Austin required all reference to sickness be cut. Consistent with secrecy was the refusal of the Norcross sisters to let Todd see the letters in their possession. These remaining witnesses to Emily's ills in her teenage years, and to the treatment she endured in Boston in 1864 and 1865, shielded their cousin

About Edgar J Hoover "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in"

Tobin had spent the first twelve years of his life living a lie, and the last two trying to ignore the truth.

Seregil, that hurts." Alec's soft, tense voice brought him back and he found himself clutching the boy's shoulder. He hurriedly released him and sat back. Alec closed cold fingers over his own. "What is it? You look like you've just seen your own ghost." A desperate ache lanced thorugh Seregil as he looked down into those dark blue eyes. if you let slip the slightest detail Damn you, Nysander! "I can't tell you, talí , because I'd only have to lie.

Imagine—Lord Seregil and Lord Alec slapped up in the Red Tower for common housebreaking? No one knows what we really are, or what we've done for Skala. It would just be shame and dishonor, and for what? Because some titled slip of a girl couldn't keep her skirts down on Mourning Night, then decided she wanted a proper marriage? For that, I risk losing you?

In spite of the interventions of the black press, the antilynching movement, and U.S. popular culture, memories of the San Jose lynching, and the robust protest movement that followed, have disappeared. But this erasure is no anomaly: The desire to keep lynching a secret is a national pastime, and the impetus to forget is overwhelming.

Indian and everything else, away. So Omri had had to keep it secret, and

Services rendered to a country in a diplomatic line can be known only to a few – if they are important and they become conspicuous they rather excite envy than gratitude.

What are you doing here " "Hiding with you

Satan wants us to sneak things in secret.

Not knowing who the particular individuals are, who call themselves "the government," the taxpayer does not know whom he pays his taxes to. All he knows is that a man comes to him, representing himself to be the agent of "the government"—that is, the agent of a secret band of robbers and murderers, who have taken to themselves the title of "the government," and have determined to kill everybody who refuses to give them whatever money they demand.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.

Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.

The priests who attended this secret meeting did so in the tradition of their enslaved black ancestors who often stole off in secrecy to learn to read and write. Like their ancestors, they were "stealing a meeting." The meeting lasted well into the night.

opposed to behind closed doors. Their psychology. The way they both believed that as long as they told a lie long enough, to as

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.

Paco Ignacio Taibo se refiere a ese mundo "místico, mágico y sensual" del convento, en cuya cocina se da "un amor perfectamente casto y al mismo tiempo de una carnalidad sin límites en esa experiencia de los sabores que alcanzaban mediante una complicidad secreta y sutil".

I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.

Se ausentaba a la última hora de la noche o a primera hora de la mañana, cuando todos dormían en palacio, y regresaba con las mejillas enrojecidas y oliendo a mar.

It's absolutely impossible to talk of any woman to another woman without betraying the absent one. They must have blood! Every word you speak is a betrayal. They're not satisfied otherwise.

Never leave anything which can be traced, when you do have a choice.

Al contadino non gli far sapere, quanto sia buono il cacio colle pere' –