Secrets Quotes

“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 off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“Sharing secrets is the way in which women tie themselves together, for it reveals complicity and trust. Holding secrets shows trustworthiness and a sort of quite defiance. It is a natural thing for a female to hold secrets within her breast until the time is ripe to release them. Does it not follow the way in which her body is formed? A woman is made with that dark and mysterious recess that can grow a child safely until the child is ready to come out onto the birthing bed. And like birthing, secrets present themselves in many ways. some slip easily into the world, others must be torn out, if the body is unwilling.”
― Kathleen Kent, The Heretic's Daughter

“…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“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 again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“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, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

“My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?”
― Gwenn Wright, The BlueStocking Girl

“I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke

“We always hate people who surprise our secrets…”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

“Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.”
― scarlett dawn, King Cave

“Modern man is not the man who goes off to discover himself, his secrets, and his hidden truth; he is a man who tries to invest himself”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

“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, Pious

“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 he who takes, pays.”
― E. Hoffman Price

“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. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies. ”
― Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

“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 opinion of you and your compliments to myself.”
― Anna Godbersen, Rumors

“...there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God.”
― J.E.B. Spredemann, An Unforgivable Secret

“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 years. Waited for the flicker of recognition, the minute shift in expression as she registered what he was telling her. Watched as the bottom fell out of her world and the person she had been vanished in an instant.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

“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, Rebel Queen

“if you were quiet and blended into the background, you were less likely to make waves”
― Jodi Picoult

“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

“There is more and more I tell no one,
strangers nor loves.
This slips into the heart
without hurry, as if it had never been.

And yet, among the trees, something has changed.

Something looks back from the trees,
and knows me for who I am.”
― Jane Hirshfield, The Lives of the Heart

“Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.”
― Tana French, The Secret Place

“Los secretos que guardamos son los únicos que pueden destruirnos”
― Susan Elliot Wright, The Secrets We Left Behind

“Secrets, like memories, do not disappear just because they are buried by snow or time or distance.”
― Elana K. Arnold, Damsel

“The idea of failing didn't make her guilty. Or upset, even. It made her feel proud in a way. She didn't want anyone else to know about her secret and by failing, she protected it.”
― Tanisha S. Sahu, A Dangerous Entity

“He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“I'm scared, all right?" I said. I could feel my stomach churn as my gaze rested on the wooden trunk.
Nathan turned my chin, looking at me with an expression of utter sincerity. "You don't have to be. I'm here.”
― Markelle Grabo, The Spell Master

“This secret-keeping business was not for me.”
― Liz Czukas, Ask Again Later

“Secrets become harder to keep the older you get. The things you think you can suppress, those idiosyncrasies and fantasies you hope no one will ever discover, become harder and harder to hide as the years advance.

Partly it is maturity-the fear of discovery grows smaller, less significant, for you learn that none of us is perfect, that human nature is flawed, that life twists and turns in all sorts of unexpected ways and it is okay to end up in a different place to where you expected.”
― Jane Green, The Beach House

“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, Getting Somewhere