"You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand."
— L.J. Smith (Secret Vampire)

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."
— Oscar Wilde

"Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else."
— Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book is Secret)

"there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?"
— Charles Bukowski

"People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard."
— Sue Monk Kidd

"Kira: L, do you know
Gods of death
love apples?

L: Damn you, Kira..."
— Tsugumi Ohba (Death Note, Volume 2: Confluence)

""Bad magic happens"
Ash Redfern"
— L.J. Smith

"Cut the Ending, revise the script, the man of her dreams is a girl."
— Julie Anne Peters

"There is nothing perfect. There is only life."
— Sue Monk Kidd

"To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly."
— Samuel Johnson

"This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty."
— Jodi Picoult (Mercy)

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves."
— François de La Rochefoucauld

"Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: he's free."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie."
— Orson Scott Card (Xenocide)

"In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. "
— Alberto Manguel (The Library at Night)

"Xxxx xxxx x xxxx, xxxxx xxx x xxx xxx x xxxx. Xxxx xxxx xxxx x xxxxx xxxx xx Xxxxxxx."
— Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book is Secret)

"Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals
TWELVE PLUS ONE,
And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN,
You will find my DICTIONARY
is quite INDICATORY.
If you want to read my story, just look...
THEN UNREAD."
— Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book is Secret)

"We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people."
— Blaise Pascal (Pensees)

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
— Dr. Napoleon Hill

"'There's always another secret.' -Kelsier"
— Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn: The Final Empire)

"This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike."
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Dart)

"Anne Juergens: Hurry up, you're gonna be late for school
Ashley Juergens: At least I won't be late for my period

"
— The Secret Life of the American Teenager (Anne Juergens) (Ashley Juergens)

"Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground)

"Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.

We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.

It is laughter."
— Vera Nazarian

"I'll tell you a secret.

Old storytellers never die.

They disappear into their own story."
— Vera Nazarian

"When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed."
— Mark Mirabello (The Odin Brotherhood)

"Un secret vaut ce que valent les personnes qui doivent le garder. "
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one."
— P.D. James (Original Sin)

"You must suffer me to go my own dark way. "
— Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

"When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived."
— Frances Hodgson Burnett

" Look: the trees exist; the houses
we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we
pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet
about us,
half out of shame perhaps, half out of
some secret hope."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Duino Elegies)

"Say not that it is impossible. It will take you a long time, but you shall surely master it. Success will take you by surprise one day; it comes suddenly. "
— Bramasuganandah