Secretive Quotes

“People are secretive when they have secrets.”
― Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess
When did you feel your
most euphoric kiss?
Was I the source
of your greatest bliss?”
― Roman Payne

“There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“As we walk through the secretive doors of our remembrance, looking for forgotten benchmarks of our history, we can find unexpected escape hatches opening into valuable answers to great expectations. (" Walking down the memory lane ")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing of loss. Ours was a world of eternal spring, until the summer came.”
― Roman Payne, Hope and Despair

“Emotions don’t interfere in my acting, nor in my life.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all that a man can invent.”
― Roman Payne, The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition

“Ô, the wine of a woman
from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all
that a man can invent.

When she came to my bed and begged me with sighs
not to tempt her towards passion nor actions unwise,
I told her I’d spare her and kissed her closed eyes,
then unbraided her body of its clothing disguise.

While our bodies were nude bathed in candlelight fine
I devoured her mouth, tender lips divine;
and I drank through her thighs her feminine wine.

Ô, the wine of a woman
from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all
that a man can invent.”
― Roman Payne

“Ô, Muse of the Heart’s Passion,
let me relive my Love’s memory,
to remember her body, so brave and so free,
and the sound of my Dreameress singing to me,
and the scent of my Dreameress sleeping by me,
Ô, sing, sweet Muse, my soliloquy!”
― Roman Payne

“If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“I was anxious to deal with this shadow by myself alone -- and to this day I don't know why I was so jealous of sharing with any one the peculiar blackness of that experience.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“But I've got a kind of misery that makes me blind and deaf. You wouldn't understand. You live in the open with all of you spread out around you. I'm mangled in a machine. Even to say it's my own fault doesn't mean anything.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“a thought she'd once had about Lamb was that when they'd pulled the Wall down he'd built himself another, and had been living behind it ever since”
― Mick Herron, Real Tigers

“She was undeniably lovely, with her honey-shaded hair and blue eyes, but she possessed a quality that surpassed physical beauty: a hint of passion contained beneath the frail gravity of her facade. Like any man, Ross was aroused more by what was concealed than by what was revealed. And clearly, Sophia Sydney was a woman of many secrets.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Lady Sophia's Lover

“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.”
― Corinne Beenfield, Where Green Meets Blue

“However secretive his nature, however foolish his reasons for loving his father, I like that he does.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“To render help is human.
To keep it secret is divine.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Once upon a time, there was a girl named Taryn and she had a faerie lover who came to her at night. He was generous and adoring, but visited only in the dark. He asked for two things: one, for her to keep their meetings secret, and two, never to look upon his face fully. And so, night after night she took delight in him but, after some time had passed, wondered what his secret could be.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“Hide your god, men must hide their true gods with great care.”
― Paul Valéry

“Said the wolf pretending to be a sheep.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will that be considered too intimi-dating? And if the thoughts are proved to be untrue, but your friend still insists on believing in them anyway, would that be considered a cons-piracy?”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, One Hundred One World Accounts in One Hundred One Word Count

“Imagine if you will:
At the highly secretive, largely independent, inter-dimensional and (inevitably) clandestine organization called the Time Saving Agency, there is a saying that goes: ‘You can’t break an omelet without first making eggs’. While this may appear to be a rather flippant little idiom, there is – as is usually the case, far more to it than meets the eye.”
― Christina Engela, The Time Saving Agency

“What was that about?" Henry's voice came out higher than he would have liked.
"Shh." Peter's eyes shifted around the square.
"I thought you cared about her," Henry said, careful to steady his voice this time.
Peter rubbed his eyes and hen opened them, hoping to find that Henry had gone. He hadn't.
"Idocare. "Peter sighed, seeing that we would have to give a genuine answer, that Henry wouldn't take anything less." But "—Peter nodded in the direction of the tavern, where the Captain was—"I'mtrying to be smart about it.”
― Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, Red Riding Hood

“I believe it's the people who talk the most that have the most secrets...”
― K. Weikel, Replay: Lifeline

“Opening my eyes, I backed away from the bus and stared at it. The bus was mysterious, seeming to know secrets it didn't tell. Perhaps I wasn't seeking hard enough.”
― Danielle Renee Wallace, Kodiak Nobleman and the Bull Rider Mystery

“He is transparent in his actions and secretive in his plans.”
― Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light

“Issomething troubling you, Miss Makepeace? "he asked mildly.
Oh, she hated that mild tone. "Whois Caro? And why did you ask about her? "
He returned his head to the book he was perusing. "You ask that almost as though you expect me to answer it." He sounded amused, distracted. Dismissive.
And this infuriated her. "You know everything about me---"
"Correction: We know nothing at all about you."
"You know what I mean! AndIhave a reason. You are simply secretive because... you areafraidto be otherwise. You hide fromeverything.”
― Julie Anne Long, Beauty and the Spy

“Secrets were currency and Isabel intended to stay rich.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe