“That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: United We Spy
“Was that, then, the way we do things? "Not knowing"— was that the way the most profound things happened?… Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?”
The Passion According to G.H. (1964), p. 159
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Peter S. Beagle book The Last Unicorn
The Last Unicorn (1968)
Context: The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. … Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.
“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”
Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer
Source: Incantation
“Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.”
Jean Ferris (1939–2015) American children's writer
Source: Once Upon a Marigold
“Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?”
Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code
Source: The Da Vinci Code
“The things that are most precious to us are sometimes the most secret.”
Ally Carter (1974) American writer
Source: Perfect Scoundrels
“Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.”
Wilfred Owen (1893–1918) English poet and soldier (1893-1918)
Source: The Poems Of Wilfred Owen
Allan Bloom (1930–1992) American philosopher, classicist, and academician
“Western Civ,” p. 18.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
Robert A. Heinlein book The Number of the Beast
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXIX : “—we place no faith in princes.”, p. 286