"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."
— Roald Dahl

"All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk."
— Lemony Snicket

"It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength. "
— Mary Stewart (The Hollow Hills)

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
— Carl Gustav Jung

"I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
— Benjamin Franklin

"Lockhart'll sign anything if it stands still long enough."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

""A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know." "
— Diane Arbus

"Sometimes its better to keep it all inside,where the only person that can judge you,is yourseld."
— Sarah Dessen

"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."
— Margaret Atwood

"A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept."
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."
— George Orwell (1984)

"The conclusion I have reached is that,above all,dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together."
— Carolyn Parkhurst (The Dogs of Babel)

"But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting."
— Clamp

"With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not."
— Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

"Didn't you know that true love is hidden like a flower too valuable to be picked?"
— Wu Ti

"You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations."
— Alice Munro (Open Secrets: Stories)

"We are bound by the secrets we share.
"
— Zoë Heller (What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel)

""You are far more likely to be devoured than empowered by your sense of romance." "
— The Cribs

"Secrets are made to be found out with time."
— Charles Sanford

"High one life, Veronica Mars. I've got a secret, a good one. "
— Lilly Kane

"She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable."
— Sándor Márai (Embers)

"The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets."
— Sherman Alexie (The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven)

"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?"
— Aidan Chambers (This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn)

""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.""
— Donna Jo Napoli (Bound)

"Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you’re in it, when you’re up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another human being, sometimes you don’t exactly notice how bad things really are. It’s not always as apparent as it would seem. Unhappiness, when it involves another person, can be like that line from The Sun Also Rises about going bankrupt, how it happens two ways: gradually, and then suddenly.

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— Sara Dunn

"People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge."
— J. Robert Lennon (Castle: A Novel)

"Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them."
— Fiona Apple

"Secrets are like plants. They can stay buried deep in the earth for a long time, but eventually they'll send up shoots and give themselves away. They have to. It's their nature. Just a tiny green stem at first. Which slowly, insidiously grows taller, stronger, unfolding itself, until there it is. A big fat secret, right in front of your face; a fully bloomed flower perfumed with the scent of deception."
— Judy Reene Singer (Still Life with Elephant: A Novel)

"There are dread secrets that none may know and have peace. More, secrets that render whosoever knoweth them an alien unto the tribe he belongs to, that cause him to walk alone on earth, for he who takes, pays."
— E. Hoffman Price

"Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out of
their way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, "Make way for
the Heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through ......

Percy was deeply disapproving of this behavior.

"It is not a laughing matter," he said coldly.

"Oh, get out of the way, Percy," said Fred. "Harry's in a hurry."

"Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged
servant," said George, chortling.

Ginny didn't find it amusing either.
"Oh, don't," she wailed every time Fred asked Harry loudly who he was
planning to attack next, or when George pretended to ward Harry off with a large
clove of garlic when they met."
— JK Rowling - Harry Potter 2 - Chamber Of Secrets

"From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. "
— John Updike

"And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies. "
— Sue Miller (While I Was Gone)

"And then heard Detective Ryan’s pleased voice talking about Eli, about killers who’ve gone free: “They have to tell,” he’d said
Well, apparently so.
But why? What is it that comes from the telling?
Some of it must be relief, of course. A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.

It seems as we need someone to know us as we are—with all we have done—and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone’s sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please
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— Sue Miller (While I Was Gone)

"Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know."
— Michel Foucault (The History of Sexuality: The Care of the Self)

"She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable."
— Sándor Márai