Secrets Quotes

Everything that happens to us, everything that we say or hear, everything that we see with our own eyes or we articulate with our tongue, everything that enters through our ears, everything we are witness to (and for which we are therefore partially responsible) must find a recipient outside ourselves and we choose that recipient according to what happens, or what we are told or even according to what we ourselves say. Each thing must be told to someone—though not necessarily to the same person—and each thing will undergo a selection process, the way someone out shopping might scrutinize, set aside, and assess presents for the season to come. Everything must be told at least once, although...it must be told when the time is right, or, which comes to the same thing, at the right moment, and sometimes, if you fail to recognize that right moment or deliberately let it pass, there will never again be another.

~ Javier Marías

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

~ Harper Lee

Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.

~ Idries Shah

I could tell from Anna's face that she had already told him about dancing in Saint Petersburg and that the memory weighed on her heavily. What monstrous things, our pasts, especially when they have been lovely. She had told a secret and now had the sadness of wondering how much deeper she might dig in order to keep the first secret fed.

~ Colum Mccann

He leaned toward me and said his name like he was sharing a secret and it made me think he probably kept a lot of secrets. His smile was sweet and his teeth the tiniest bit crooked.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk

And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we?

~ J.k. Rowling

He wanted to know something about me. I leaned over and put my mouth to his ear. It was barely a whisper.'I'm a murderer.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth is my sexuality. I'm dirty and shameful. I have no right to my own physical boundaries.' That shapes their ideas about the world around them: 'No one will believe me. Telling the truth results in bad consequences. People can't be trusted.' It doesn't take long for children to being to act in accordance with these belief systems.For girls who have experienced incest, sexual abuse, or rape, the boundaries between love, sex, and pain become blurred. Secrets are normal, and shame is a constant.

~ Rachel Lloyd

All the best secrets are told at night.

~ Mark Lawrence

The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night.

~ Marty Rubin

Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

~ Joan Lindsay

Each tear being shed holds a thousand pounds of truth.

~ Audrey Regan

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

~ Alice Munro

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

~ Benjamin Franklin

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

~ Sylvia Plath

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

~ George Orwell

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

~ Michelle Hodkin

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

~ Margaret Atwood

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

~ Nicholas Sparks

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

~ Veronica Roth

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.

~ Kim Edwards

The best secrets are the most twisted

~ Sara Shepard

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

~ Fiona Apple

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.

~ Stephenie Meyer

Don't you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?

~ Leila Sales

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

~ Lemony Snicket

The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.

~ Carolyn Parkhurst

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

~ Joe Hill

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

~ Robin Sloan

Some secrets are meant to be known- but once known you can never forget them.

~ Pseudonymous Bosch

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

~ Kate Morton

THE LUXE IS . . .Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn.Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.This is Manhattan in 1899.

~ Anna Godbersen

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

~ Ann Aguirre

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

~ Brian Andreas

Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.

~ Daisy Whitney