Secrets Quotes

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

I wasn't the kind of girl who liked to wait around to be rescued.

~ Violet Cross

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A secret's safest hiding place is in the open.

~ Jill Alexander Essbaum

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

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

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

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

Never underestimate the power of telling a teenage boy he's risking his chances of getting laid. Works almost every time.

~ Violet Cross

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

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

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

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

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

Jesus, Lacey. You just scared me half to death.I forced a laugh. Only half? Damn.

~ Violet Cross

Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.

~ Kate Atkinson

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

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

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

Why, if you only knew the secrets to which I'm p

~ Brandon Sanderson

Some things stayed secrets even when you told them.

~ James S.a. Corey

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

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

Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.

~ Sara Sheridan

The secrets in his brain were like some mesmerizing drug to me.

~ Alex Latimer

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