Quotes About Secrecy

How did you know I was here in town?" "The old quarter here in Cadence is my neighborhood now," she said smoothly,"Let's just say I have my sources." "Right", He nodded, evidently satisfied and picked up his sandwich. "your mother phoned and told you I was on my way here to Cadence.

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas...

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

The show was over and you had a sinister feeling that out there in the darkness all over the country there were millions of kids—decoding.

His mother hadn't know what Durex was. But she had suspected. She had asked him, gravely, if it was 'anything bad'. Useless trying to explain. Useless, subsequently, trying to convince his father that he was only acting like a responsible citizen.

That a closed door only invites closer scrutiny.

married people were entitled to a certain measure of privacy, that they needn't tell each other everything.

gloves and dark black visors so you can't see their eyes, and their faces

I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan

it was better to leave a mystery outside the door -- something they would expand in their minds, and fear.

private group prayers were the modern equivalent of a backroom cigar.

There was an easier solution to the security breach. He could kill us all. An explosion at a bomb factory would tidy up the problems of a trial drawn out by national security motions. There would be no pleas, no losing, no settlement. If this place blew, no one would ever know about Wahi Pandi, Gadwhal or the Gissar heliport. None of it. The secret would be safe.

This is a really lame exchange of hidden messages.

If you purposely get other people involved that you're not supposed to, that'll cost you Gary's life, too. Understand?

Become a type, no one saw you. Paranoid thought: What better disguise? But disguise for what?

A sudden flash of his partner Wyte, telling him he was compromised, him replying, "I don't have an opinion on that.

Sometimes you had to keep things from people just so they wouldn't do the first thing that came into their heads.

Homeland security still exists?" "Not by that name. Just their drones. Do you know how many secret drones lacerate the sky these days? They'll outlast us all. Form their own civilization.

Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know.

why should God be allied with death? Why should He want to kill a man who succeeded in seeing him? Now, everything became clear. God was ashamed. God likes to sleep with twelve-year-old girls. And He doesn't want us to know. Whoever sees it or guesses it must die so as not to divulge the secret. Death is only the guard who protects God, the doorkeeper of the immense brothel that we call the universe.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

Nobody knows what goes on in other families, because families lie about themselves to other people. Not only to other people but to one another. And to themselves.

I wanted to keep it as small as possible, so that it would go away sooner. I needed to keep it to myself.

You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to hide or excuse what she felt was her first wish.