Quotes about secrets

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“Learn her skills, honor her sword, and keep her secrets.”

“Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.”

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”

“That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.”

“Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”

“The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation”

“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.”

“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”

“One of the secrets of a successful life is to know how to be a little profitably crazy.”

“The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.”

“It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters.”

“Okay…' I hurried on. 'But why me?'
'You're a girl,' Lockwood called. 'Aren't you supposed to be more sensitive?'
'To emotions, yes. To nuances of human behavior. Not necessarily to secret passages in a wall.'
'Oh, it's much the same thing.”

“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.”

“Write what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?”

“Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.”

“I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.”

“That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”

“A truth comes out when it must;
A dream comes true when it will.
Though the world turn to ash and dust
A secret’s a secret still.”

“We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

“We'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”

“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”

“The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.”

“The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”

“Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.”

“I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.”

“Sometimes there would be someone else out there, someone she didn't know, but when they saw each other each would nod, as if making a secret pact. No question, no small talk.. agreed”

“Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her… he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before her.”

“The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.”

“The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.”

“Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?”

“I deserve better than that, you know? I deserve… I deserve to be someone's number one girl."

"You are."

"No, I'm not. She is. You're still protecting her, her secret, whatever that is. From what, though? From me? What have I ever done to her?”

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.”

“The secret of high finance… if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money.”

“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end… in the end it is our only ally.”

“Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.”

“Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream.”

“Only two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”

“Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.

We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.

It is laughter.”

“But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me.”

“It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.”

“He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret.”

“In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood”

“A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.”

“Please!’
That word didn’t make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice.
‘You’re already dead,’ Nico said. ‘You’re a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won’t be sharing any secrets.”

“Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now.”

“Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.”

“Resistance is the secret of joy!”

“Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls.
“Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
"I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.”

“Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”

“Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.”

“… it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.”

“I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.”

“there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.”

“We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.”

“The place looks like where David Lynch would meet Beaver Cleaver's mom for secret afternoons of bondage and milkshakes.”

“It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.”

“The tail of Emily Windsnap"everyone has a secret. mines alittle different. i figured out i am a mermaid.”

“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”

“There is
By my leaning over the precipice
Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion
My finding the secret
Of loving you
Always for the first time”

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”

“Until one comes who is mightier,
The one sprung from misery,
The one who was weak,
The one who was hunted,
The one marked with claw and vine,
The one named in secret,
The one called Jezelia.”

“I'm a fool, to confuse this with goodness. I am not good.
I know too much to be good. I know myself.
I know myself to be vengeful, greedy, secretive and sly.”

“Secrets… are the very root of cool.”

“The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.”

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.”

“You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.”

“If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.”

“A secret's a secret because you don't let people in on it.”

“I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.”

“He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.”

“One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.”

“Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.”

“Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught
you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody
knows what’s going on”

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.”

“I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul.”

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air — moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh — felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.”

“Tell me a secret.”

“stand tall, smile bright, and let them wonder what secrets making you laugh!”

“They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.”

“I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.”

“One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.”

“The only way to retrieve a secret, once known, is to replace it with a lie.”

“Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding out what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.”

“I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.”

“It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.”

“You can keep it a secret…. But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.”

“Ooh. Top secret angel business, huh? What’re you going to do? Dance on a pinhead? Lobby for National Cute Puppy Day?”

“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”

“I thought research would be more glamorous, somehow. I'd give the librarian a secret code word and he'd give me the one book I needed and whisper the necessary page numbers. Like a speakeasy. With books.”

“You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.”

“I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.”

“The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”

“dreams are shadows cast by truth shining on our darkest secrets”

“It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.”