Secret Quote by Kate Karyus Quinn

“The cicadas were singing a song. It was a one-noted, one-worded; The words sounded like "please". They were singing and singing and singing and…

— Karen Foxlee

“The words sounded like a desperate prayer.”

— Nora Sakavic

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why…

— Grete Waitz

“That's what art is, he said, the story of a life in all its particularity. It's the only thing that really is particular and…

— Roberto Bolaño

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it…

— Roberto Bolano

All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.

— Barry Unsworth

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

— Karl Lagerfeld

“He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it…

— George Orwell

“His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.”

— Anne Ursu

“May Allah bless you." Or had she said: "May Allah burn you?" He was not sure which: the two Arabic words sounded so much…

— Paul Bowles

“By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce them.”

— Margaret Atwood

“My words still sounded lame, but the truth so often limps off the tongue in times of crisis. Just when we most need to…

— Bernard Cornwell

“You know I love you. You're the only one." "She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it…

— Margaret Atwood

“If words are to be uttered, they would be from behind the partition. Unaccountable is distance, time to transport from this present minute. If…

— Theresa Hak Kyung Cha