Secrets Quotes
1588 quotes by 1142 authors
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He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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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…
— Kristin Hannah
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I would far prefer to have things happen as they naturally do, such as the mousse refusing to leave the mold, the potatoes sticking to…
— Julia Child
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That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,…
— Walter Mosley
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I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything…
— Ally Carter
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I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had…
— Jeannette Walls
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...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life…
— Roald Dahl
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The entire being of a woman is a secret which should be kept.
— Isak Dinesen
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...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
— Lionel Shriver
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The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.
— Lisa Unger
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Have you ever been in love, Hadrian?†“I’m not sure. How do you tell?†“Love? Why, it’s like coming home.†Hadrian considered the comment. “What…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She…
— Arundhati Roy
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...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.
— Stephen King
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Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out.
— Franny Billingsley
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Let thy discontents be thy secrets
— Benjamin Franklin
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden…
— Veronica Roth
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How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208
— Stephenie Meyer
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But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed,…
— Hermann Hesse
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His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling…
— Veronica Roth
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He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets…
— Veronica Roth
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