S Quotes
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“Secrets can actually be quite important. A work of art that reveals its meaning or its power too quickly is uninteresting. It might not even be a good work of art.”
“Secrets can be poisonous.”
“Secrets can eat you alive. They break down your soul. It's better to have them in the open”
“Secrets can never be kept from Cobweb; he does not need words.”
Source: Wraeththu
“Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism playing out silently in the lives of people all around us.”
“Secrets can't consume you,
but watch for the shame
that closes your lips in the first place.”
“Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll never meet again.”
“Secrets can turn people into liars.”
Source: History Is All You Left Me
“Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.”
Source: Bound
“Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.”
“Secrets enter systems like a drug, causing aberrations in the body and clouds in the mind.”
Source: AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies
“Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.”
“Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous over taking it.
Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else's most secret self. Everyone wants to allow someone into their most secret self. Everyone feels so alone inside that their deepest wish is for someone to know their secret being, because then they are alone no longer. Don't we all long for this? Yet when it's offered it's frightening, because you might not live up to the desires of the one who bestows the gift. And frightening because you know that accepting such a gift means you'll want-perhaps be expected- to offer a similar gift in return. Which means giving your *self* away. And what's more frightening than that?”
Source: This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
“Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.”
Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
“Secrets have a way of eating away at us from the inside”
Source: Vampirates: Tide of Terror
“Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.”
Source: Once Upon a Marigold
“Secrets have a way of nudging against their enclosures and bumping playfully against the walls.”
Source: The Prospectors
“Secrets have power," Widget begins. "And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is even worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit. It was inevitable, perhaps, but not unavoidable. Everyone makes mistakes.”
Source: The Night Circus
“Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.”
“Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.”
“Secrets hidden at the heart of midnight are simply waiting to be dragged to the light, as, on some unlucky high noon, they always are. But secrets shrouded in the glare of candor are bound to defeat even the most determined and agile inspector for the light is always changing and proves that the eye cannot be trusted.”
“Secrets
I am all secrets now.
I know when you walk into a room.
I don't need to see or hear you
behind me,
but I know you're there
and wish you'd touch
my shoulder when you walk by.
How can you do that,
without a sound,
send electricity,
a current
through a room full of people?
When did this crazy secret life start?
People see me but don't see
I've changed.
The me people see isn't the tangled
me inside,
trying not to think
about you,
your laugh
splashing like a waterfall
on a hot summer day.”
Source: Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love
“Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.”
Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings
“Secrets interest us all, I think.”
“Secrets keep families sick. You never keep secrets in families because even if the child doesn't know what the secret is, they will always know there is a secret.”
Source: The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
“Secrets keep you sick. Keeping secrets about your shame keeps you stuck in a self-hate cycle. Everything in your spirit is screaming to express this energy, and then you consciously fight against it and push it back down. Then you feel bad about yourself for going against what your spirit wanted; more guilt, more shame, more spirit screaming to unload all that toxic energy.”
Source: How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
“Secrets,” Kohler finally said, “are a luxury we can no longer afford.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“Secrets, Lies
All I despise.
The tree is poison,
Don't you see?
It poisoned S and Z and me.
The evidence I stole
Is in the darkest hole.
Light shall reveal all
I writ upon the......Wall.”
Source: The Hawthorne Legacy
“Secrets, like tyrants, have influence that extends far beyond their own thrones. To silence their oppressive powers, they must be uncrowned.”
“Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can.”
Source: Moth Smoke
“Secrets make us sick, I've heard. I made secrets out of my questions and doubts and sadness and grief because I didn't know how to simply sit with them. Even now, I fight against the urge to explain or pretend or ignore away the darkness. It's uncomfortable to lean into the pain, to seek God there in the darkness.”
Source: Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith
“Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out.”
Source: Girls in the Moon
“Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.”
“Secrets of the cosmos will begin to unravel. I, for one, can't wait.”
Source: Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions
“Secrets of the Flesh: There’s an animal within us all. Learn to ride your inner animal nature, instead of letting it ride you!”
“Secrets of the heart are seldom news.”
“Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?”
Source: The Life and Religious Experience of the Celebrated Lady Guion
“Secrets only ended up hurting other people.”
Source: Better Off Friends
“Secrets pour out like water, even from a single hole”
Source: Too Like the Lightning
“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.”
Source: Chime
“Secrets reveal themselves only in the hands of those who dare.”
― Korkut Çetin, Kayıp Kedi Heykelinin Sırrı (The Secret of the Lost Cat Statue)”
Source: The Secret of the Lost Cat Statue
“Secrets,’ she replied, casting my trousers aside, ‘are difficult things. Not precise. Not always the same for the one who tells as for the one who receives. They make demands. They may cause you to ask yourself, “Am I worthy?”’ At which, as if to illustrate the point, she removed her bra and watched me follow the lines of her magnificent form with my eyes.”
Source: Karna's Wheel
“Secrets she'll take to the grave and secrets she's dying to share.”
Source: Perfect Chemistry
“Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time”
“Secrets tear you apart.”
“Secrets that reside in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears.”
“Secrets travel fast in Paris.”
“Secrets upon secrets were weaving into a strange and mysterious fabric that would ultimately clothe his future.”
Source: Legacy
“Secrets were like cobwebs. They began with a single, seemingly innocuous strand, and built into a filth that marred what once was beautiful.”
Source: High Seas