Secrets Quotes

Have you ever done something that you were really ashamed of? I mean somehing so bad you felt sick just thinking about it?''Everyone has. Why, what'd you do?''I didn't say goodbye to Mum.''That's not so bad.''Did you say goodbye to your mum before she left?' I'd never asked Martin about this before. I didn't want to hear the answer.'She left before I had a chance.''Oh.''That's what I like about you, Faltrain.You always know just what to say.

~ Cath Crowley

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

~ E.l. Konigsburg

A secret spoken finds wings.

~ Robert Jordan

The secret must stay and- according to scientists- the love will live. The heart is quite comfortable with secrets. After all, its home is a dark wet place tucked in among all the other organs who aren't talking either.

~ Toby Barlow

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

~ L.m. Montgomery

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

~ Sherman Alexie

To know a man’s secrets is to discover his weakness, and thus control his will

~ Jeremy Aldana

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

~ Vera Nazarian

Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.

~ Scarlett Dawn

He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as a kind of penance. It was self-destructive, he could see that, but that was the way things were. People smoked, they jumped out of airplanes, they drank too much and got into their cars and drove without seat belts.

~ Kim Edwards

What kind of woman tells all her secrets?” my mother continued, flabbergasted and disappointed in me. “Especially anything that has to do with your body making babies! I know a woman who had no ovaries when she got married. Her husband found out only years later that they couldn’t have children. The two of them are happy together still; they live in a big house, and have a cute dog.

~ Inna Swinton

This secret-keeping business was not for me.

~ Liz Czukas

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

~ Michelle Moran

if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves

~ Jodi Picoult

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

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

Time after time, I have seen secrets tear people apart.

~ Alys Arden

How hollow to have no secrets left, you shake yourself and nothing rattles. You're boneless as an anemone.

~ Andrew Sean Greer

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

~ Louisa May Alcott

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

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

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

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.

~ Andrei Codrescu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.

~ Katherine Rundell

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

Our bodies won't have secrets now.

~ André Aciman

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

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

When in doubt go the library

~ J.k. Rowling

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

And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.

~ Joseph Conrad