Now I no longer believe that people’s secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.

Disclosing one’s “deep, dark secrets” makes them no less deep or dark or secret than any other petty flaw.

It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

And as for the vague something — was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? — that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed...

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

Once she told me her secret, it ceased to be a secret. Therefore, I was free to tell the world.

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline...

All I wanted was a man who could love and who loved me, who I could share my secrets with and know his.

Secrets and lies… Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives. To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the situation.

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

We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.

Time is the mother of all secrets.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

There comes a time when all the secrets are told and all that is left are their spent ghosts.

Your mother loves you too, son, more than anything in the world. She worries about you, day and night.”That sentiment stirred something profoundly pleasant inside the boy. He grinned at the internal warmth it created.

And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret....

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?

His body tensed as his gut was struck with a frozen bullet of shock. He couldn’t breathe.

Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves – our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence of the spiritual, but I simply can’t see a chasm in between the...

An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. I learned that. This kind of story, this kind of things kept secrets -they...

I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.

I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely.

Secrets… nothing eats away at love faster.

Revelations help us accept the things we need the most, expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, revelations are windows into our...

Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there’s a secret.

Azerowut, I must tend to an urgently urgent business and a business that is urgent most urgently. Watch over my tent with extreme care and care that is caring in the extreme, and do not,...

Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in her ear. Transferred the secret he and her mother had kept for seventeen...

The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who’d proven themselves worthy.

It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.

We women talk too much, but even then we don’t tell half what we know.

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not...

DON’T TELL YOUR SECRETS.A whisper can betray you.DON’T EVER STOP.They will always find you.DON’T TRUST ANYONE.Not even yourself.

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...

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

Ah well that I can’t tell you.” Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. “Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I’ll keep my...

They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she’d never spoken a word.

There are marvelous sea creatures whose existences can be viewed only within the deep blue sea, and similarly we all have dear secrets that can be spoken only in the habitat of the heart.

I hate him for what he’s done, but I still love him for the man he was.

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don’t.

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly. Early on I was fascinated by theoretical physics...

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

The real thing about evil… you figure out one side of it – the human side, say – and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is...

There are dread secrets that none may know and have peace. More, secrets that render whosoever knoweth them an alien unto the tribe he belongs to, that cause him to walk alone on earth, for...

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

There are some secrets so toxic you can’t share. Especially if you love who it is you’d have to share with.

The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. Telling the truth when the truth matters most...