Dark Quote by Kristin Cashore

So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding…

— Tessa Dare

“Out in the country it was not uncommon to discover that she had slipped away, alone, out to the lake, maybe, or down to…

— Donna Tartt

She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old nurse come to chase…

— Megan Whalen Turner

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really…

— Katherine Paterson

“No, her secret was too weighty and dark to reveal to anyone—she had to bear it alone. — “I had to keep breaking into…

— Haruki Murakami

“But hidden drawers, lockable diaries and cryptographic systems could not conceal from Briony the simple truth: she had no secrets. Her wish for a…

— Ian McEwan

“The part she hated most in mystery novels was where someone had a key piece of information but didn’t tell anyone. That was always…

— India Drummond

“As plain Jane, she had far more to risk than Lady Mystère did. Behind her mask she could be the mistress of his darkest…

— Monica Burns

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

— Oscar Wilde

The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“I almost let it go. I think it was the yellow dress. It made me want to give her the benefit of the doubt.…

— Harry Dolan

“had a sneaking suspicion that”

— James Patterson