When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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...

Then, idly scratching his nose, he walks to the bookcase in the living room and stoops before a set of drab brown Victorian volumes gathering dust on the second shelf from the bottom.How amusing, he...

…how time packs new years over the old ones but how those old years are still in there, like the earliest, tightest rings centering a tree, the most hidden, enclosed in darkness and shielded from...

You don’t have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can’t you see how stupid that is?

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

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.

Never participate in the secrets of those above you; you think you share the fruit, and you share the stones – the confidence of a prince is not a grant, but a tax

It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quite out of reach, never, never to come back. It was bright to...

Kutunza siri wakati mwingine ni kitu kigumu sana kwa baadhi ya watu lakini watu wanapaswa kuwa na uwezo wa kutunza siri kujijengea uaminifu, ambao ni siri ya mafanikio.

If you don’t talk about it, it didn’t happen.

I’m an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude – is something else.

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.

People are complicated. People have secrets. It doesn’t make them good people or bad people.

What happened?” Bailey asks.”That is somewhat difficult to explain,” Tsukiko answers. “It is a long and complicated story.””And you’re not going to tell me, are you?”She tilts her head a bit … “No, I am...

The people who enlighten us are the ones who tell us their secrets.

I don’t think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

If you want to keep a secret, don’t tell anyone!

It’s in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

Secrets are powerful, and this was one of the most powerful of all.

The secret parts of this city never ceased to amaze me.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve my life-long dream of playing in the NBA.

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

In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he felt sick. He felt the bottom dropping out.

Secrets can kill the innocent and enchant the guilty.

Then, as tonight, he had felt lonely, but soon had learnt the bounty of such loneliness. The music had breathed to him its message, to him alone amongst these ordinary folk, whispered its gentle secret....

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

We all have our secrets. We all have our vulnerabilities.

Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.

Lie until even you believe it – that’s the real secret of lying

Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat...

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

A miserable collection of little secrets, that’s all any of us is. 

Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers:...

You are asking us to lie, Colonel?””I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the…the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low.” The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. “What...

He was afraid that the secrets she’d kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut...

A funeral is no place for secrets.

No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.

Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because...

A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told

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...

It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone’s existence, there is probably a very specific, obvious reason for it, and the reason you’re avoiding confronting it...

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...

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

Everyone had a dirty, little secret that is never spoken out loud to anyone. Which is another way of saying people are never what they seem.

Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and...

He has never told anyone this story. He doesn’t mind talking to Richard, to Rafe about his past–within reason–but he doesn’t mean to give away pieces of himself.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.