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Sarah wonders if whatever secrets Grace is protecting feel the same as her own, sometimes just fuzzy and ticklish, like a littler of kittens trying to climb and paw their way out, and sometimes with claws bared, kittens grown to tigers, camouflaged but always ready to spring.
— Beth Neff, Getting Somewhere
It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
Time after time, I have seen secrets tear people apart.
— Alys Arden, The Casquette Girls
How hollow to have no secrets left
—  you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.
Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
I know what it's like to have secrets. Ones that are way traumatic. Ones that are so awful you can't tell anybody, even though you're dying to. So I'm not going to talk about this with anyone. It's the right thing to do. Karma and all.
— Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.
— J. Robert Lennon, Castle
Secrets. Everyone has them. The light of day and truth reveal some secrets to be nagging obsessions or habits, while other secrets may be as incriminating as a literal decaying skeleton in one’s closet.
— Kenn Bivins, Pious
Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.
— Andrei Codrescu, Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio
The fact is we all know that there exists in the world an order different from that in which we pass our days. If we reveal its existence people think that we are crazy.
— Andrei Codrescu, Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio
We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.
— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Le plus bel amour de Don Juan précédé de Le rideau cramoisi
And then heard Detective Ryan’s pleased voice talking about Eli, about killers who’ve gone free: “They have to tell,” he’d saidWell, apparently so.But why? What is it that comes from the telling?Some of it must be relief, of course. A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.It seems as we need someone to know us as we are—with all we have done—and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone’s sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please
— Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
Secrets are like scars. The cut may no longer be there, but the scar’s white line tells a story. Unless you share it, it’s like you’re hiding a part of yourself the whole world can already see. They may not know the how or the why, but they see it just the same.
— Robin M. King, Van Gogh Gone
Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.
— Franny Billingsley, Chime
I guess when someone tells you something they they usually guard, you feel privileged, not because you know something no-one else knows, but because you feel chosen. You feel like that person wants her life to intersect with yours. I think that's what felt best about it.
— Markus Zusak, Getting the Girl
If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
— Julian Fellowes, Gosford Park: The Shooting Script
In a later chapter, less argued over and less well-known, Teccam explains that there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart. Most secrets are secrets of the mouth. Gossip shared and small scandals whispered. These secrets long to be let loose upon the world. A secret of the mouth is like a stone in your boot. At first you’re barely aware of it. Then it grows irritating, then intolerable. Secrets of the mouth grow larger the longer you keep them, swelling until they press against your lips. They fight to be let free. Secrets of the heart are different. They are private and painful, and we want nothing more than to hide them from the world. They do not swell and press against the mouth. They live in the heart, and the longer they are kept, the heavier they become.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Reading to me has always been like having a conversation with people who wouldn’t ask me any personal questions. Instead, they open up their own hearts and tell their secrets to me.
— Marina Simcoe, The Real Thing
The most beautiful thing about the world is how much is unknown to us. There are so many secrets, Hawthorn. So much awaiting discovery. We are merely dust motes in the vastness of the universe.
— Chelsea Sedoti, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
The hardest secret to keep is one you don't know you have
— Marty Rubin
Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.
— Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers
We live in a culture of secrecy, where hiding and lying are accepted as natural, even though we don’t like it. We want honesty, transparency, and authenticity in our loved ones, our groups and organizations, and in our own self so we can reach the heights of our capacity. By clinging to the opaque reality we stall our evolution.
— Penney Peirce, Transparency: Seeing Through to Our Expanded Human Capacity
Our bodies won't have secrets now.
— André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
Secrets are like bullets. Ditto the dark, personal stuff. Folks say they'll take'em off yer hands, share the burden, but really they just load 'em into their own weapons so they can use 'em against you later.
— Erin Bowman, Retribution Rails
Most of us knew things that we didn't even want to confess to ourselves, so we took those secrets with us like condoms, stuffed in wallets, that would never be used.
— David Joy, Where All Light Tends to Go
When in doubt go the library
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire for revelation. The truth within us has a way of coming out despite all conscious efforts to conceal it. I have heard stories from those in the generation after the war, all speaking of the same struggle to ferret truth from the silence of their parents so that they themselves could begin to live.
— Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.
— Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm
that's the thing with secrets. They're leaky
—  you can't decide to share the bits that suit you without a million questions oozing out. You have to solder a part of yourself shut.
To know aberrations is to become involved with them.
— NisiOisiN, 偽物語 (上) [Nisemonogatari]
Go figure, that happened to be his same style of flirtation as well—annoy her half to death until, before she could stop herself, she confessed her deep darks and bonded with him to a degree she never had before.
— Katherine McIntyre, Forged Alliances
Secrets, secrets, secrets. People are filled to the brim with them if you look closely.
— Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes
Everyone has secrets, Lou,” she says. “Everyone should be allowed their secrets. You can never know everything about a person. You’d go mad trying to.
— Sarah Pinborough, Behind Her Eyes
They meet again at dinner--again, next day-- again, for many days in succession. Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine. Mr. Tulkinghorn is always the same speechless repository of noble confidences, so oddly but of place and yet so perfectly at home. They appear to take as little note of one another as any two people enclosed within the same walls could. But whether each evermore watches and suspects the other, evermore mistrustful of some great reservation; whether each is evermore prepared at all points for the other, and never to be taken unawares; what each would give to know how much the other knows--all this is hidden, for the time, in their own hearts.
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Secrets...were cancers. Secrets festered. Secrets ate away at your innards, leaving behind nothing but a flimsy husk.
— Harlan Coben, The Stranger
Because Niall Lynch was the biggest liar of them all, and he’d stuffed all of that into his eldest son. There was not much difference between a lie and a secret.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.
— Susan Hill, Mrs de Winter
Sleep is often denied to those with secrets.
— Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon
Moving forward in time, it is important that we learn to distinguish between mysteries and secrets. Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.
— Mark Frost, The Secret History of Twin Peaks
Maybe secrets were part of life; maybe everyone had something they were lying to themselves about, or something they were hiding.I looked up at the cross again and wondered if I was supposed to hear this particular sermon at this particular moment for a reason. I decided that the people who had said God didn’t love me, who said I didn’t have a place on Earth—they were wrong. God wanted me to live, and this was the only way I knew how to survive, so this was what God wanted. This was what I wanted. I had chosen to live, and it seemed like, finally, I was doing just that.
— Meredith Russo, If I Was Your Girl
The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.
— Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree
There will be things I won't tell you ever , Then there will be things that you won't ever listen. Then...
— Ratish Edwards
Power needs plots because plots are secret until they unfold and the most gratifying kind of power is holding onto an explosive secret.
— Glenn Haybittle, The Memory Tree
But Aladdin says nothing.Instead, he lowers his face and softly kisses the side of my neck, his mouth trailing up to the skin behind my ear. Goose bumps break across my skin, and I turn my face to meet his lips with mine. This kiss is gentler than our last, long and slow and restrained. It is a kiss of longing. A kiss of farewell. His hands tighten around my waist, pulling me against him. We drift in a slow circle, sending out ripples that make the floating flowers bob and dip.“You keep so many secrets,” he murmurs. “I could spend the rest of my life discovering you.” He tucks my hair behind my ear, his eyes devouring my face.
— Jessica Khoury, The Forbidden Wish
I used to think that sharing secrets always brought people closer. So I revealed secrets I did not want known in order to feel closer to someone. Oh, the loss I felt when I found out the secrets that I had held dear, that were so difficult to say out loud, that I had kept to myself, were being spread around the next day as if they were nothing! I think that was the moment I realized that pouring your heart out to someone might not bring you closer but in fact make you poorer instead. I even though maybe growing close to someone was better achieved by empathizing in silence.
— Kyung-Sook Shin, I'll Be Right There
Secrets always come up for air. They're never content to stay buried for long.
— Kristy Cambron, The Illusionist's Apprentice
Don't worry,' she told him. 'I am exceptionally good at keeping secrets.'- Frankie Landau-Banks
— E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Loving me is like entering a dungeon with a lot of doors. I cannot guarantee you that you will get the key of every door you come across, I cannot tell you which door leads you where and what is behind it, I cannot assure you that you will head back out again the way you came in. All I can say is if you manage to open every right door and the last one too, I will make you one of my secrets forever, you will see and feel things that you have never come across, which will never let you leave again from the paradise that you have reached.
— Akshay Vasu
And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.
— Lauren Wolk, Wolf Hollow
Secrets are an exalted state, almost a dream state. They're a way of arresting motion, stopping the world so we can see ourselves in it.
— Don DeLillo, Libra
You learn how to keep your secret better when your secret gets into the mind of a man with a slippery tongue.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Right after Matt died, I was afraid to do basically everything. I couldn’t even bite my nails or sniff my shirt to see if I needed deodorant without feeling like he was watching me. I willed and prayed and begged him to give me a sign that he was watching, that he was with me, so I would know. But he never did. Time moved on. And I stopped being afraid. Until right now, vulnerable and insecure and a little bit drunk. Lying in the sand and falling in crazy love with someone I just met. Matt is watching me. Observing. Possibly judging. And the worst part of it is, I don’t want to wake up under his landslide of sad rocks anymore. I don’t want to taste the marzipan frosting and the clove cigarettes. I don’t want to think about the blue glass necklace or the books he read to me on his bed or the piles of college stuff or some random boy in the grocery store wearing his donated clothes. I don’t want to be the dead boy’s best-friend-turned-something-else. Or the really supportive neighbor friend. Or the lifelong keeper of broken-hearted secrets.
— Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
it is funny how things are always perfect as long as you keep quiet. And then, what's the point in having an awesome lover when you do not let yourself admit it, even to your closest friends? And, if you do not kiss and tell, are your affairs real, or nothing more than bedroom distractions; check-in before midnight, check-out before 9 AM?
— Gina Wings, Secrets of a Perfect Hair Color: Adventures of an Urban Woman
Secrets... Dexter a perfect example what... can happen with secrets.
— Deyth Banger
I blame what happened next on the door. The one right across the hall from me, a mere three feet away. I love doors. All of them, without exception. Doors lead to things and I’ve never met one I haven’t wanted to open. All the same, if that door hadn’t been so old and decorative, so decidedly closed, if a thread of light hadn’t positioned itself with such wretched temptation across its middle, highlighting the keyhole and its intriguing key, perhaps I might have stood a chance; remained twiddling my thumbs until Percy came to collect me. But it was and I didn’t; I maintain that I simply couldn’t. Sometimes, you can tell just by looking at a door there’s something interesting behind it.
— Kate Morton, The Distant Hours
You're not supposed to talk ill of the dead, because how are they supposed to defend themselves? But what if they've done something so bad, so awful that you had to think ill of them? That you needed to.
— Kara Terzis, Frayed
But the secrets of such a book are not perpetual. Once they are known, they become relegated to a lesser sphere, which is that of the knower. Having lost the prestige they once enjoyed, these former secrets now function as tools in the excavation of still deeper ones which, in turn, will suffer the same corrosive fate. And this is the fate of all the secrets of the universe. Eventually the seeker of a recondite knowledge may conclude—either through insight or sheer exhaustion—that this ruthless process is never-ending, that the mortification of one mystery after another has no terminus beyond that of the seeker's own extinction. And how many still remain susceptible to the search? How many pursue it to the end of their days with undying hope of some ultimate revelation? Better not to think in precise terms just how few the faithful are.
— Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
The snow, the effect of concealment and secrecy it creates, makes him think of the brutality of the wartime legislation to forbid and violently extract secrets. It is as if the hushed white landscape is showing how sacrosanct are our secrets, how much of our vitality is bound up in them.
— Glenn Haybittle, The Way Back to Florence
I didn't like having secrets. Secrets only ended up hurting people.
— Elizabeth Eulberg, Better off Friends
Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me."Whatever was told to Zinat invariably lit up the telephone network, rebounded off aerials, radio waves, and satellites along the way, picked up finally by advanced alien civilizations as it bounced through the atmosphere of planets far removed from this one.
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth
I wanted to buy a T-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWABLE.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz
If I tell you something Leah, can you keep a secret?" Conor pressed a callused finger across a petroglyph of a deer like a blind man etching memory into his brain.
— Laura Treacy Bentley, The Silver Tattoo
I need to know how you did it it. I did it, said Sweeney, with the air of one confiding a huge secret, witch panache and style. That's how I did it.(Shadow & Mad Sweeney)
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding,
— Veronica Roth, The Traitor
We both wanted to know each other's secrets, and we both wanted the other person to go first.
— Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.
— Rebecca McNutt, Shadowed Skies: The Third Smog City Novel
Gansey knew enough people with secrets not to be dazzled into easily using them as currency.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King
What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing.
— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King
There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either.
— R.A. Mathis, Falling Down: Part 1 of the Homeland Series
I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all.
— Deyth Banger
For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies. Sabina despised literature in which people give away all kinds of intimate secrets about themselves and their friends. A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up on his own free will is a monster. That is why Sabina did not suffer in the least from having to keep her love a secret. On the contrary, only by doing so could she live the truth.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Um, well, I’ve been working out with Alex. Today just happened to be right after our workout,” Craig admits finally.“Really,” I say dripping with sarcasm. “And you failed to mention this earlier? You ran off so abruptly for your tryst. I should’ve suspected something illicit was occurring.”Alex erupts in laughter looking at Craig. “You didn’t tell her.
— Isabelle Joshua, The Swallow
When you are the answer that must remain hidden, then you have everything to be worried about when so much people are asking the same question.” - Sari
— Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise
In the kingdom of Iluji, a taboo was only a taboo when it has a non-participating witness. And in this land blanketed with darkness, secret was the code of every deed and the darkness was the only constant observing angel.
— Ray Anyasi, Broken Cloud: the first sunrise
When no one is left to tell what happened, family histories keep their secrets.
— Carmen Posadas, Little Indiscretions
Every secret has a expiration date...
— Josiyah Martin
Secrets are foolish creatures, I have learned. No longer do I wish to play with fools.
— Jesikah Sundin, Transitions: Novella Collection
Secrets are worth more than silver and sapphires.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
No Amish woman would dare to confide, even in her sister, that a man's very presence made her heart quicken and her senses tingle.
— Sarah Price, Sense and Sensibility: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Classic
The guy next to you, is probably saying some kind a truth behind everything or just a peace of it. Nobody knows!...Now your hands bloody, new mysteries new secrets found and some people don't want you to know them. So they kill the person to which you get in contact.... (Blindspot Series!)
— Deyth Banger
Yes, best friend of mine. I am the famous photographer you've admired for years, and the man who's admired you.
— Kelly Moran, Exposure
Don’t leave me, Em. You’re my salvation.
— Sarah Grimm, Wrecked
The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?
— Penelope Douglas, Falling Away
I wanted to tell her secrets I hadn't even told myself yet.
— Molly Beth Griffin, Silhouette of a Sparrow
the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life.
— Sheri   Fink
A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.
— Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?
But there’s that thing with secrets, too, how they take over your head, feeding on your every thought, growing bigger all the time until the day comes they’re so heavy you can’t walk.
— Debbie Howells, The Beauty of the End
was there a store somewhere full of unwanted secrets?
— Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
There's a very thin line between rightfully protesting, and protesting so much that it becomes clear you're trying to hide something.
— Aimee Carter, Queen
I live in a house of secrets, but I’ve unlocked a few rooms for you
— John J. Geddes
If he could do one thing, he could run. He had spent his life running, secrets spitting at his back.
— Brenda Sutton Rose, Dogwood Blues
If you have something hot, you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and your secrets buried.
— Richard Castle
Be careful of your Golden GlitterIt may shine upon your Baby Sitter
— Frank Julius, BLOOD DICE
That sounds a lot like, ’ I have more secrets that I’m going to spring on you whenever I feel like stopping your heart dead in your chest.
— Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
Secrets are a sneaky little seed. You can hide them, you can bury them, you can disguise them, and cover them up. But then just when you think your secret has rotted away and decayed into nothing, it stirs back to life. It sprouts roots and stems, crawls its way through the mud and muck, growing and climbing, and bursting through the surface, blooming for everyone to see. That's the lesson here. The truth always comes out eventually.
— Kimberly Belle, The Ones We Trust
As long as they don't know, I am safe
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
Secrets carve us like water carves stone. On the surface nothing will shift, but things we cannot tell anyone chafe and consume us, and slowly our life settles around them, moulds itself into their shape.Secrets gnaw at the bonds between people. Sometimes we believe they can also build them: if we let another person into the silent space a secret has made within us, we are no longer alone there.
— Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water
Questions after a fatal fall of a giant are like lighting a fire by a breeze laden sea.
— Darmie O-Lujon
A little amount of secret is a great pillar of the mind. He who does not have what somebody does not know, have what everybody knows. Know your secret; keep your secret. He who knows what to keep, knows what real life is all about
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Yeah I know. No one can know what you're doing or who you trust or don't trust, etc., etc.
— Evelyn Smith, The Summer of Secrets
These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us.
— Joyce Carol Oates
and I wanted this girl who was like no girl I had ever known, wanted her not in spite of her moods and her secret bruises and her sad attempts at artifice but because of them, because of them all.
— Tana French
When our Heart is on the Right Place there will be no Secrets.
— Jan Jansen
The things that kept them awake in the middle of the night, the things they did underneath the cover of darkness, both dreadful and beautiful, both attractive and repulsive, were revealed in stark clarity to their minds. A harsh reality that intensified sensations with each gust of wind. They shrank from it with frightened whimpers. The setting in each house would have fit perfectly into a post-apocalyptic tale of nuclear holocausts. Shell-shocked expressions gazed into the nothingness. Blankets over faces, silent prayers to the heavens. No curious eyes at the windows, or storm watchers dared to partake. The mere thought of looking out was too much to be borne.
— Jaime Allison Parker
If these were Plumber's people, that would mean he knew we were coming. That we'd lost our element of surprise and we were walking into a trap.Which, you know, was obviously at the top of my to-do list today.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
The Divines may have taken our homes, our friends, our family, but what we had now we would fight to keep hold of.And if the Divines did decide to try and take it, they'd have a hell of a fight on their hands.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Just then they were both vulnerable, and the only thing standing between them and our enemies, was me.It seemed nobody wanted to take those odds because no one approached. I was mildly flattered.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Our enemies had a tendency to take one look at Charlotte, with her short, slim figure and her pretty, delicate Asian features, and assume she was weak. A low level threat.Ten seconds later, the look of surprise on his face as he lay on his back, winded, eyes rolled up and watching her support Kate towards the stairs, said he'd possibly learnt his lesson. Never judge a book by it's cover.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
She hadn't been scared for herself, she'd been frightened for me.Good. Her A-class horror movie scream earlier had nearly put me in an early grave. When this was over, I could call us even.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Instead I watched Layla as she bolted over the battered desk, heading for the door Charlotte and Kate had just disappeared through. Good girl.The thought screeched to a halt as I watched her run straight past it.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
I wasn't the kind of girl who liked to wait around to be rescued.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Did you see them? They're kids, Nathan. Children, who ended up being in the wrong place, at the wrong time." I blew out a frustrated breath, tracking one of the angry young teens in topic as he was dragged kicking and yelling from the room. "They won't even consider switching sides. Plumber has them so scared, all they can see if the numbers advantage he has over us.""Numbers don't mean shit when you're fighters have the same level of skill as a two year old." He sniffed, shaking his head at the kid who was finally pulled from the room. "And that's insulting to two year olds.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Ugh. I do not miss being your age." Sarah muttered, retracting her hand and wrinkling her nose. "It's like all teenagers have hormones coming out of their ears.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
That was one thing the Divines had taught us: treasure every precious moment. Do the things you've always dreamed of doing. Spend as much time as you can with the ones you love, because tomorrow you might not get the chance.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Don't be cute." Luke murmured, amusement lacing his tone. He moved forward, leaning against the slice of wall at the other end of the floor to ceiling window. "I promise you, I wouldn't even know where to start.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
The view wasn't exactly breath-taking. Kind of boring actually. Unless, of course, you had a rare, strong appreciation for deserts, in which case it was downright mind blowing.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Lacey?" He bowed his head until his face was inches from mine. His smile was still in place, and as his eyes swept over my face, it widened. "Uh-oh. Did you break?
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
When her voice cracked and tears started spilling down her cheeks, I panicked. I wasn't good at consoling people at the best of times, but even a trained therapist would have struggled in my shoes. What could you possibly say to a girl who'd dug for hours trying to rescue her family after they'd been buried alive?
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
He was slowly starting to recover. I could tell by the eye roll and sigh. Oh, so only he could be a comedian?
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
They were smart enough to know that handing out superpowers like sweets to the general public was never going to be a good idea.Not that that stopped it from happening anyway.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
For all our guessing and speculating, there were a few things we all agree on. Things we knew to be fact. The drug was never meant to get out. Ordinary people were never supposed to develop extraordinary powers. Divines weren't supposed to take over the world.But they did.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
A secret's safest hiding place is in the open.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau
Anyone who'd ever kept a secret could tell you, the bigger the secret, the more draining it was to carry around with you. Every second, of every minute, of every day, lying to the people around you. Waiting for the inevitable moment that the truth would come out and you would have to deal with the fallout.It was exhausting.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
If You Don't want to Reveal your Secrets,Just keep your Mouth Shut.
— Fahad Rashiq
So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
After a hasty gulp, I lowered the bottle and grinned. "How much are you betting it's that and the melons they put in the fridge yesterday on the menu for tonight?"Luke grinned but said nothing. I shook my head. "You're grinning because I said "melons", aren't you?"His smile widened. I rolled my eyes. Boys, they never grew up.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Be careful who you share your personal life with. If someone you confide shares secrets with you, that they were asked not to divulge, chances are your secret's already out there too. Everything is not for everybody.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
Studying him then, it was hard not to notice how handsome Luke was, a fact that that most of the girls hadn't missed either. To their delight, his almost OCD obsession with having his hair no more than several inches long meant he regularly asked them to trim his sandy brown hair with nail scissors. An honour they held rock, paper, scissor tournaments for. It was all very serious stuff.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Never underestimate the power of telling a teenage boy he's risking his chances of getting laid. Works almost every time.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.
— Joyce Rachelle
Same. I don't like to think I might have ended up in Plumber's gang, but given the alternative..."I raised both eyebrows. "Yeah. Drug-dealers or super-powered psychopaths? Choices, choices.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Kate! Get some ice on that ankle or it's going to swell to the size of Luke's head. Then neither of you will be able to get through the front door.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
The secret of the whole matter is that a habit is not the mere tendency to repeat a certain act, nor is it established by the mere repetition of the act. Habit is a fixed tendency to react or respond in a certain way to a given stimulus; and the formation of habit always involves the two elements, the stimulus and the response or reaction. The indolent lad goes to school not in response to any stimulus in the school itself, but to the pressure of his father's will; when that stimulus is absent, the reaction as a matter of course does not occur.
— Edward O. Sisson
I caught sight of a small twitch on Plumber's face, like he was battling the urge not to frown.Well Plumber, if you didn't want your bitch making noise, you should have put a muzzle on her.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
What?" I asked, the word coming out much softer than I'd intended. Not quite a whisper, but close."Nothing. Just glad we ended up here, all of us, together.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
I wasn't one to judge others when it came to fashion choices, but even I knew he'd drawn the short straw in the apocalyptic wardrobe department.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Jesus, Lacey. You just scared me half to death."I forced a laugh. "Only half? Damn.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.
— Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins
My sister and I both survived the apocalypse. But that day was only the beginning of our struggles.Three years later, and this is where I ended up, alone, bound and awaiting my surely unpleasant fate.And man, how I wished they'd just get on with it.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
I didn't even know this guy's name. I'd never heard him referred to as anything but "Plumber', a hideous nickname he'd dubbed himself for no other reason than that it had been his occupation Before. Oh, and he carried a wrench around as his signature weapon. The whole thing screamed sanity.Not.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
You going to let me go now?""That depends." He muttered. "Are you going to try and nosedive down the stairs again?""Wasn't planning on it, but who knows how this might play out.
— Violet Cross, Survivors: Secrets
We tell our secrets to the dark.
— Gayle Forman
Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm p
— Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker
Some things stayed secrets even when you told them.
— James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games
The secret of wisdom is to be overly curious, like a cat--to take the time to look closely, to use all your senses to see and to touch and to taste and to smell and to hear, and to die because you were overly curious. To keep on wondering...about the afterlife. That is our only mission. Only one. If we don’t wonder, then we will never, ever be curious. Then, if like the cat, you wondered too far...you simply no longer will have to ever wonder again. Your mission will be fulfilled. All because of curiosity.--from The Wise-ass Man who butchered Eve Merriam’s wisdom...and Her Secret
— Stan Sudan
I had loved Kitty -I would always love Kitty. But I had lived with her a kind of queer half-life, hiding from my own true self. Since then I had refused to love at all, had become - or so I thought - a creature beyond passion, driving others to their secret, humiliating confessions of lust; but never offering my own.
— Sarah Waters
It's like she has some sort of captivating fire in her eyes. Sometimes she'll look at me and I feel like she's staring into my soul, reading everything I'm trying to keep hidden.
— Kiki Archer, But She Is My Student
It seemed at momemts, When I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down to meet the sea and some great secert was to be revealed.
— Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
Everyone had a dirty, little secret that is never spoken out loud to anyone. Which is another way of saying people are never what they seem.
— Anonymous
Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.
— Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog
The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.
— Alex Latimer, The Space Race
But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it? Who at least ever declined a love secret? What sister could do so?
— Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
He has never told anyone this story. He doesn't mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past--within reason--but he doesn't mean to give away pieces of himself.
— Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
If you want to keep a secret, don't tell anyone!
— MissTammy Cantellia
It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet the sea and some great secret was to be revealed.
— Anne Rice
Secrets are never so dangerous as when they've been forgotten.
— Natalie C. Parker, Beware the Wild
Keep your secrets. You're too young and beautiful not to have secrets.
— Velvetoscar
Secrets... nothing eats away at love faster.
— Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
I'm never getting a tattoo. My secrets are etched safely on the inside and I intend to keep them there.
— Lisa O'Donnell, The Death of Bees
Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
She paused a moment."Pepino, shall I tell all our dear friends our little secret?" she said. "If you say 'no,' I shan't. But, please, Pepino--"Pepino, however, had been instructed to say 'yes,' and accordingly did so.
— E.F. Benson, Lucia in London
Delwyn believed that some secrets were meant to stay in the shadows.
— Kelly Proudfoot, Delwyn of the Realms
We all are secret-keepers in our intimate relationships. We keep secrets from our partners about daily encounters, former lovers, true feelings about sex, friends, in-laws, finances, personal hopes, and worries about work, health, love, and life. It may be, in fact, that keeping these secrets makes all relationships possible. If our partners knew every thought, every nuance of our selves, our relationships would run the risk of succumbing from either constant turmoil or—perhaps worse—a tedious matter-of-factness devoid of surprises. Whatever their contribution to the maintenance of our unions, secrets also contribute to their collapse.
— Diane Vaughan, Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships
Figuring out the secret of the universe is like trying to read a brand after the steer's been made into hamburger."~Will Durham from Crossroads, A Music Novel
— M.T. Bass
Secrets were never good. They were supposed to protect people, but they never did. They always made things worse.
— Gemma Malley, The Legacy
What was best for Charlotte? The answer was obvious. And for once he needed to overcome his selfish desires. "Go home, Charlotte." "So thats it?" She straightened, her lovely pride stiffening her frame. "You are finished with me? Finally?" He discarded the glass and moved so quickly across the room, around the furniture, that he saw the surprise that she couldnt hide. "No." He touched her chin, made her meet his eyes. "I would never be finished with you, Charlotte" Something far more contorted than simple confusion graced her face. "Roman." And her voice was soft, questioning. "Do you think you might come to love me? If you werent ...giving...me back? Someday? Just a little?" He was frozen. Absolutely frozen. He couldnt speak a word. She lifted her chin a notch and pressed a soft kiss to his lips at his nonresponse. And still he remained frozen. He saw her walk to the door and grab Bills arm. Heard their footsteps filing down the hall. Leaving. Leaving. Never hearing his whisper that he already did.
— Anne Mallory, One Night Is Never Enough
People always have secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.
— Stieg Larsson
The secret parts of this city never ceased to amaze me.
— Nicholas Kaufmann, Die and Stay Dead
But time does not disclose its secrets to humankind, and the possible turned impossible.
— Radwa Ashour
All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.
— Christina Dodd, Virtue Falls
Every Single Number on the Clock knows all my Secrets.
— Mian Adeel Mushtaq
Houses are like people, Agent Lemieux. They have secrets. I'll tell you something I've learned.'Armand Gamache dropped his voice so that Agent Lemieux had to strain to hear.'Do you know what makes us sick, Agent Lemieux?'Lemieux shook his head. Then out of the darkness and stillness he heard the answer.'It's our secrets that make us sick.
— Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month
Secrets are powerful, and this was one of the most powerful of all.
— Jennifer Rush, Reborn
The unsaid rules every conversation.
— Marty Rubin
She was beginning to have that feeling that comes after midnight, of one's thoughts opening out, flowering, groping out loud for some new discovery, some new truth that is really as old as all the hundreds of years girls have been confiding to one another in the relaxing intimacy of the night.
— Rona Jaffe, The Best of Everything
Just because you knew it, doesn't mean you must reveal it. There are circumstances in life that should remain as secrets.
— Joe Mari Fadrigalan
I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people agree that I was right. None of them ever accused me of being responsible for what had happened to Phineas, either because they could not believe it or because they could not understand it. I would have talked about that, but they would not, and I would not talk about Phineas in any other way.
— John Knowles
Beware the soft-spoken when secrets are kept, for they hear what the thunderers do not.
— Michael Alan Peck, The Journeyman
It was always the secrets that hurt us, wasn't it? Not the telling of them.
— Betsy Cornwell, Tides
To every whisper if you listen carefully, you will hear or fail to hear something.
— Auliq Ice
The world is swirling with so many mysteries and secrets that nobody will ever track down all of them. But with a book you can stay up very late, reading until all the secrets are clear to you. The questions of the world are hidden forever, but the answers in a book are hiding in plain sight.
— Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
If it could come about that each of us were to describe his innermost secrets –secrets which one would hesitate to tell not only to people at large, but even to one’s closest friends, nay, to fear to admit even to one’s own self - the world would be filled with such a stench that each one of us would choke to death. That’s why, speaking in parenthesis, all our social conventions and niceties are so beneficial.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated
The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Secrets are a responsibility and a painfully taxing one at that.
— Jonas     Lee, A Time to Reap
Secrets are truths that show what we’ve been through—what we’ve survived.
— Dannika Dark, Five Weeks
I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.
— Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection
Of what is concealed can also be revealed.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
Who knows the secrets of anybody’s heart.
— John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van
I love early snow now, though. Especially snow that happens when you least expect it and just sprinkles down for a while. It feels like a secret.
— Kate Messner, The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z.
People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
The victims of homicide are the only ones who carry the true secrets of humanity to the grave. The ones only God knows
— Prabhukrishna M
There comes a time when all the secrets are told and all that is left are their spent ghosts.
— Rene Denfield
Then the truth began to reveal itself, as it always does. truth seeks the light of day,needs it just like we need air, and so it finds ways to seep out of the sturdiest. most skillfully hidden boxes--even those buried deeply in the hearts of the dead.
— Wendy Webb
…these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don’t need to read these books. Words are there to confuse you. They are just messing around with your mind. You have to look beyond words. There is a big secret somewhere in these books and I am going to find it. And you know that, but you are afraid to admit it. It is dangerous.
— Stevan V. Nikolic, Weekend In Faro
Please?" he asked. He laughed once, nervous. "I'm in love with you"After a long pause, I cringed at the words I was about to say. "If you knew what I know... you wouldn't be."He shook his head. "I don't wanna know. I just want you.
— Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Oblivion
We all have secrets we keep locked away from the rest of the world... Friendships we pretend... Relationships we hide... But worst of all... Love we never let show. The most dangerous secrets a person can bury are those we keep from ourselves
— Emily Thorne
Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.
— Nikki Sex, Fate
Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
It's been written that a lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
— Emily Thorne
It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.
— John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Leo, I have another secret. I've fallen in love with you.” "I've always loved you.
— Tom Rob Smith, Child 44
Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.
— George MacDonald, The Complete Works of George MacDonald: The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess And Curdie, Lilith, Phantastes, Parables, Far Above Rubies and More
Both agreed that to find any sense in life it was pointless to search in the places where people were instructed to look. Sense was only to be found in secrets.
— John Berger, Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths
We are our secrets, and, if all goes well, we will take them with us to where no-one can touch them.
— Cees Nooteboom, 's Nachts komen de vossen
You come from your mauma, you sleep in the bed with her till you're near twenty years grown, and you still don't know what haunches in the dark corners of her.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings
But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so many others!) may be read by those to whom truth is more important than beauty.
— William T. Vollmann, The Ice-Shirt
The entire population of Blackfin maintained a wary distance from her, as though the skeletons in their closets were spring-loaded and ready to burst out onto the front lawn.
— Kat Ellis, Blackfin Sky