All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name th...
There comes a time when all the secrets are told and all that is left are their spent ghosts.
When our Heart is on the Right Place there will be no Secrets.
The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order. Now it's the government that has a lock on the secrets...
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 I don’t coun...
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the sm...
It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time.
Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold back, to yield and then to tease with a single page – but then the world is the...
Because: if our secret defines us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it's there:...
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
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.
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.
…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.
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 that it is the nature of evi...
Then the truth began to reveal itself, as it always does. truth seeks the light of day,needs it just like we need air, and so it finds ways to seep out of the sturdiest. most skillfully hidden boxes--...
if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves
Secrets are what can ease or crush a soul, mend or destroy a heart, and rescue or murder a life.
I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
It seemed at moments, when I sat alone in the dark stateroom, that the sky had come down the meet the sea and some great secret was to be revealed.
It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.