Quotes About Secrecy

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

Think of Area X as a murderer we're trying to catch." "Oh great, that's just great, now we've got a detective on staff, too.

While Control came with whispers about being part of a kind of invisible dynasty, which naturally bred resentment. There was no denying that fact, even if, up close, the dynasty was more like a devolving franchise.

Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It

We were not told what the device measured or why we should be afraid should it glow red. After the first few hours, I had grown so used to it that I hadn't looked at it again. We had been forbidden watches and compasses.

But then someday the truth would come out. It always did. Repress what you will, someday the truth comes out.

Having a secret is isolating." Try, as much as possible, not to hide your flaws or perceived differences.

mail drop as the return address.

For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.

Being discreet has never been your strong suit.

no proof has ever been offered about his involvement in the troll-goblin war or the disappearance of several prominent magical creature families. What

Nothing," Elsa lied. It wasn't possible to put all she was thinking into words.

Truth be told, she still preferred to lve life in the shadows, but duty called.

One popular story had it that Los Alamos was a wartime plant that made windshield wipers for submarines. Others insisted that workers were actually assembling submarines in a factory. This theory persisted even though there was no deep water for hundreds of miles around: against all reason, people actually believed the army had cut a secret passage to float the subs down the Rio Grande.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

Daniel Mackenzie came behind her, towering over Katie and Beth, the lanky young man the most nervous of the three. "Should you be here?" Daniel hissed. "My dad would tan my hide if he knew I let you come near a game girl, and God knows what Uncle Ian will do.

Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching.

The truth can be a hard thing, Jo. It's often best left hidden.

They'd moved behind the tree where I wouldn't have seen them unless I'd been looking for them (which I was). I almost pointed them out to Tammy, then decided against it. I didn't want to sound like a fifth grader: Wow, kissing!

By then I'd been watching shadow selves for many years. They'd rescued me from boredom, from sadness. From tables full of rich, awful people. They'd given depth to the shallow, dimensions to the simpleminded. Mystery to the blatant. They were my own secret project. But Z knew about them, too. He was looking for mine. A spy. Like me.

Is it? I thought. Is it really better if I talk about it? Isn't keeping this hidden the only way I can protect you, can protect this family? Isn't that my job, taking care of us? Sometimes you can do that better with silence than with words.

Having two women—one who can't know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.

I doubt if he himself leaks even enough to piss more than once a year on his birthday,