Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

I do not tell her about how much I look forward to going to the Wright barn. How those couple of hours in his studio feel like an escape, a refuge. Nor do I tell...

The Universe doesn’t like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.

Secret ceremonies in which malevolent men and women cloaked in hooded robes, hiding behind painted faces and chanting demonic incantations while inflicting sadistic wounds on innocent children lying on makeshift alters, or tied to inverted...

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.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden–only ugliness and deformity.

Sometimes it’s the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.

It seems 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...

We don’t want to give all of their trade secrets away. (But) they are able to pick out the ads.

We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

What you see will hurt you; what you don’t see will hurt you.

It’s naive to assume that another person can fulfill you, or save you, if the two things are, in fact, different, and I have never felt that way with Colin. I simply believe that he...

The knowledge of secrets is a very enticing ship, a very tempting voyage, and one thinks that the highest attainment in life is to find out hidden truths, to seek out what is truth, to...

People are secretive when they have secrets.

What happens in the dark should not be brought to light.

Many things which are called ‘secrets’ are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Sir Henry fixed him with a keen eye.’Odd name, Tom Skatt – eh?”Thats right”You don’t think we could be related?’Tom looked up at his great-great-great-uncle and smiled.’I don’t think so”No,’ grinned Sir Henry “no, of...

I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.

Secrets are truths that show what we’ve been through—what we’ve survived.

Secrets are a responsibility and a painfully taxing one at that.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don’t want you to think that anything is wrong.

So am I.

So that’s it. That’s the big secret. I tried to kill myself on New Year’s eve. Just like Sadie did last night. Only she really did it. I don’t know all the detatils, just the...

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.

I will gladly spend the rest of my days learning your secrets.

This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died.

Obi-Wan’s young face clouded. “Some secrets are best left concealed, Master.” He shook his head. “Besides, why must you always be the one to do the uncovering? You know how the Council feels about these…...

For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.

The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.

I don’t think I’ve ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.

A secret is a truth, hiding behind a mouth.

There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.

How do you look at your best friend the same way again when you know the flavor of his mouth?

Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good...

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he’s the one, of course it was a dream, of...

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...

This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it...

Because, my dear Eric, I have tasted the secret knowledge. I know how much to say and when to pull back. I know what to see and not see. And now that I have become...

Who knows the secrets of anybody’s heart.

For its survival, the satanic cult demanded secrecy and obedience while it made brutality, even killing, appropriate. Denial and disavowal were inevitable responses to required behaviors so bizarre as to seem unreal, even to those...

I have no secrets.

Nothing Stays Secret Forever

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.

Eleanor should never have told them about Park’s house, but she’d been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)

It is a fundamental principle of American democracy that laws should not be public only when it is convenient for government officials to make them public. They should be public all the time, open to...

A mystery is an unknown puzzle to solve like lies and secrets that you need to know. Lies and secrets that are like a cancer in our soul. They eat away what is good and...

I have to ask, sir…Why does it have to be done like this?”Vetinari smiled. “Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig?””Oh, yes, sir. I’ve kept lots.””Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do...

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.