secrets

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.

For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.

I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people agree that I was right. None of them ever accused me of being responsible for what had happened to Phineas, either because they could not believe it or because they could not understand it. I would have talked about that, but they would not, and I would not talk about Phineas in any other way.

I have to ask, sir...Why does it have to be done like this?"Vetinari smiled. "Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig?""Oh, yes, sir. I've kept lots.""Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do not need to know.

There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so dirty that he knows he never will get rid of it. (Shakespeare knew this and tried to say it, but he said it just as badly as anyone ever said it. 'All the perfumes of Arabia' makes you think of all the perfumes of Arabia and nothing more. It is the trouble with all metaphors where human behavior is concerned. People are not ships, chess men, flowers, race horses, oil paintings, bottles of champagne, excrement, musical instruments or anything else but people. Metaphors are all right to give you an idea.)

People always have secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are.

The victims of homicide are the only ones who carry the true secrets of humanity to the grave. The ones only God knows

In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why____hy they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he felt sick. He felt the bottom dropping out.

The secret of wisdom is to be overly curious, like a cat--to take the time to look closely, to use all your senses to see and to touch and to taste and to smell and to hear, and to die because you were overly curious. To keep on wondering...about the afterlife. That is our only mission. Only one. If we don__ wonder, then we will never, ever be curious. Then, if like the cat, you wondered too far...you simply no longer will have to ever wonder again. Your mission will be fulfilled. All because of curiosity.--from The Wise-ass Man who butchered Eve Merriam__ wisdom...and Her Secret

Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.

Secrets are a responsibility and a painfully taxing one at that.

Delwyn believed that some secrets were meant to stay in the shadows.

_these books have their own integrity, their own identity. It is not about the words in there. You don__ need to read these books. Words are there to confuse you. They are just messing around with your mind. You have to look beyond words. There is a big secret somewhere in these books and I am going to find it. And you know that, but you are afraid to admit it. It is dangerous.

The unsaid rules every conversation.

People always knew more than you gave them credit for. Perhaps, in the end, no one had any secrets at all.

If you don't talk about it, it didn't happen.

Beware the soft-spoken when secrets are kept, for they hear what the thunderers do not.