Quotes About Secrecy

Your silence on the issue of people trying to kill you is deeply disturbing.

Luckily for me, I didn't know precisely what it was that I'd done to merit a visit from our pack's leader. There were any number of possibilities, none of which I wanted to openly admit on the off chance that there was something I'd done that he hadn't found out yet.

This was our language: half-truths, obvious lies, accusations neither one of us would ever make. It was a system eery bit as complicated as Morse code or the dancing of bees. Don't ask, don't tell, stay civil.

Sometimes, the most dangerous people were the ones you trusted most.

I'd promised Grayson secrecy, but this was Hawthorne House. Most of the occupants were far too clever for their own good—or anyone else's.

Before, I liked cars, yachts, a door locked from the inside, and you. :)

Whatever it is you and the boys are up to—stop.

The eagle has landed," Vivvie said from the other end. "The bird is in the bush." Few things in life gave Vivvie and Asher as much joy as talking in code. I didn't bother translating.

If anyone asks," Michael called to him, "your name is Alfred.

The best way to keep intruders from breaking into a safe is to make sure they don't even know it's there.

Three seconds later, Briggs and Sterling were inside the suite. I heard the door shut behind them. And then the feed went black.

This didn't feel like a conversation I had any business overhearing, so I crept for the door to my room,

Reggie was so sick of it all. The things people knew (or thought they knew) about other people. Maybe everyone had a secret life, not just Vera. She suddenly hated all of it. She wanted people to be as see-through as fish tanks, no more murkiness, no misdirection. No lies and bullshit. No secret rooms or lies about being the star of some goddamn play that didn't even exist.

Phoebe realized how very wrong she'd been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places she'd grown up in. In the dingy little apartments her mother rented, everything was out in the open. Their lives were dirty and squalid, but they didn't pretend to be anything else. Here, things seemed so normal, so perfect, but it was all a deception.

May 13 Deduction. Reduction. Redaction. How much has been redacted from the carefully curated version of our story?

As she rattles on, about Violet, about Gemma Sterling, about the Bartlett Dirt, I don't say anything else. I suddenly don't want Bren or Charlie to talk about Violet, because I want to keep her to myself, like the Christmas I was eight—back when Christmases were still good—and got my first guitar, which I named No Trespassing, as in no one could touch it but me.

We can't always see what others don't want us to. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it" -Mr. Embry

We can't always see what others don't want us too. Especially when they go to great lengths to hide it.

Éste es mi secreto: en cualquier momento saldré volando y huiré de aquí.

It's so lovely to be lovely in Private.

THEY WERE QUIET MEN who discussed murder in normal tones.

I did see pictures of Mom posing nude in the backyard Reno left on the dresser one time and I had an intimate look at my mother.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Understand this! A year ago General Billot and Generals de Boisdeffre and Gonse knew that Dreyfus was innocent, and they have kept this frightful thing to themselves. And these men sleep and have wives and children whom they love!