
“These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.”
Secrets.
Rosa: The Death of a Composer
“These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.”
Secrets.
“I'm not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!”
“Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.”
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper.”
“We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.”
Dear Boullée
“How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?”
Comment prétendons-nous qu'un autre puisse garder notre secret, si nous ne pouvons le garder nous-mêmes?
Maxim 64 of the Maximes supprimées.
Later Additions to the Maxims
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
In response to a question from an audience member
2004 speech to the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council
“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”
Source: Incantation
“Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!”
Source: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 19: A Fairy Duet