1,170 Quotes About Secrets

Immediately as I ride the rush of wind chills my skin and twines it’s fingers into my chestnut hair, making the waves brush against my shoulders and fly behind me. Over the creekbed trees stretch and barely touch each other, as though passing a secret from one to the next. I strain my ears to hear their whispers through the leaves, but if they speak to me I don’t understand. But that’s okay, let them keep their secrets. I have my own.

And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.

You see, Emmy,” Frankie said, modeling one of the dolls and having it do a full body spin. “Now no one has to know.” “Know what?” “About the damage, of course. You show people what they want to see, and they’ll never suspect what’s underneath.

… it is that such of us as have loved deeply have learnt many secrets that are unknown to others; for thousands and thousands of things quiver in silence on the lips of true friendship and love, that are not to be found in the silence of other lips, to which friendship and love are unknown. …

Too long spent denying each other, we no longer hid our want.

There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.

Remus lived in fear that if he wrote it down, or said it outloud, then everyone would find out his secret. And it was better to keep stuff like that in your head.

There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night.