Quotes About Secrets Between Us

#1. I loved your world, Noah. It was a magical place, where there were stars and love, and there was hope. Hope. I don't think you know how it is not to have that. I stole some of yours. It was beautiful, but there were too many secrets between us, and I always knew I'd have to give it back.

Debbie Howells

#2. Wesley's touch lingers on my skin. His music echoes through my head. I remind myself as I scrub my skin that we are both liars and con artists. That we will always have secrets, some that bind us and some that cut between us, slicing us into pieces.

Victoria Schwab

#3. We have secrets, and we have the same secrets that criminals have. Sometimes the only difference between a criminal and a law-abiding citizen is that somebody found out the criminal's secret.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#4. Your death defines my life. I want to find the love we never had and explicate it in your name.
I want to take your secrets public. I want to burn down the distance between us.
I want to give you breath.

James Ellroy

#5. The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery.

Jonathan Zittrain

#6. His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me; I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

Veronica Roth

#7. And there were no secrets between them anymore, save one. G wanted to confess it to his lady before they commenced with the very special hug.

Cynthia Hand

#8. "Kevin is nothing like Kellan," I explained.
"He looks like him."
"Is that all you're interested in?
"Of course you idiot."
I smiled and shook my head at her. "You're impossible."
"Not at all! I'm just shallow!

Chasta Schneider

#9. Our lives are lived between madness and secrets ... Our secrets make us who we are. - Derek Quinn

G.J. Paterson

#10. There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?

Ilona Andrews

#11. the rain falls, catching the trailing edges of net curtains which flow out of open windows like fishing nets lowered over the backs of boats, nets hung neatly between the outside and the in, keeping floundering secrets firmly hidden...

Jon McGregor

#12. One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#13. You can't be close to someone, not truly, with secrets in between you.

Jenny Han

#14. Even though I think that Mia and I have enough secrets between the two of us at this point

Gayle Forman

#15. I had seen the world as either white or black.
It is only when I read the pages of her diary that I understood why the sky looked so grey.

Sanhita Baruah

#16. We have nothing now between us, save - respect, perhaps. And I think that respect has maybe room for secrets, but not for lies.

Diana Gabaldon

#17. One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively to the hidden silences. Often secrets are not revealed in words, they lie concealed in the silence between the words or in the depth of what is unsayable between two people.

John O'Donohue

#18. Just then they were both vulnerable, and the only thing standing between them and our enemies, was me.
It seemed nobody wanted to take those odds because no one approached. I was mildly flattered.

Violet Cross

#19. You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

W. H. Auden

#20. There are things ye maybe canna tell me, he had said. I willna ask ye, or force ye. But when ye do tell me something, let it be the truth. There is nothing between us now but respect, and respect has room for secrets, I think - but not for lies.

Diana Gabaldon

#21. I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

Daniel Radcliffe

#22. As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

Jill Lepore

#23. In Mexico, when we want to speak deep secrets, we drink pulgue together. It is a drink made from the cactus plant, and when you take the bottle from your mouth, it leaves a string behind, between the mouth and the bottle, like a spider's web. It shows that the truth sticks inside.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#24. Dead girl walking" the boys say in the halls.
"Tell us your secrets" the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
"I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#25. I want to study the secrets tucked between his elbows and the whispers caught behind his knees. I want to follow the lines of his silhouette with my eyes and the tips of my fingers. I want to trace rivers and valleys along the curved muscles of his body.

Tahereh Mafi

#26. Between loving friends there need be no secrets ... the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares.

Joan Walsh Anglund

#27. The innate harmony that exists between mind and body is one of the secrets behind the amazing power of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which is weakened by an inefficient use of the body. Our bodies must be strong, relaxed, and healthy to respond to our minds' commands.

H.E. Davey

#28. The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

Jonathan Carroll

#29. But what else are secrets for if not discovery? That is their nature. Only time stands between a mystery and its rightful master.

Usman T. Malik

#30. I felt the wall between the world of secrets and the real world start to collapse. I felt the girls from the portrait becoming us and us becoming them ...

Carol Rifka Brunt

#31. The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#32. The link between nudity and sexuality is a modern invention. If there are no mysteries, there are no secrets, no shame when the time comes for him to Change. Our exterior bodies are borrowed treasures.

E.A. Copen

#33. A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

J. D. McClatchy

#34. There's a very thin line between rightfully protesting, and protesting so much that it becomes clear you're trying to hide something.

Aimee Carter

#35. It's amazing how people can be so blind to what's good for them and what isn't, what's truth and what's not, or the difference between secrets and things just not yet known.

Eric Lindstrom

#36. There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

Carolyn Hax

#37. Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge

T.F. Hodge

#38. And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.

Lauren Oliver

#39. Love that comes between the naivete and awakening of youth satisfies itself with possessing, and grows with embraces. But Love which is born in the firmament's lap and has descended with the night's secrets is not contented with anything but eternity and immortality.

Kahlil Gibran

#40. You should know the difference between secrets and lies.

Victoria Aveyard

#41. Keeping secrets made you powerful. Being powerful earned you respect.
Respect was hard currency.

Terry Pratchett

#42. Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.

Chloe Thurlow

#43. After that, Marya Morevna understood that she belonged to her secret and it belonged to her. They had struck a bloody bargain between them. Keep me and obey me, the secret said to her, for I am your husband and I can destroy you.

Catherynne M Valente

#44. The difference between secret and
lie is similar to the difference of ice
and water.
when you heat ice it becomes water.
and when you force anyone to
reveal there secrets it comes in a
form of lie.

Munendra Dwivedi

#45. And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical. It was a dialogue between two young people with high ideals and a Big Plan. It was about belonging, secrets, partnership, commitment.

Jasper Fforde

#46. If one squinted into Cabeswater long enough, in the right way, one could see secrets dart between the trees. The shadows of horned animals that never appeared. The winking lights of another summer's fireflies. The rushing sound of many wings, the sound of a massive flock always out of sight. Magic.

Maggie Stiefvater

#47. He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.

Veronica Roth

#48. You look good, Clearwater. Been working out?' Danie teased.
'He does, doesn't he?'Janelle agreed. 'This will totally work.'
James' eyes darted back and forth between the girls, his head spinning. 'Wait, what will work?

Brandi Salazar

#49. Love cannot grow between two people when dark secrets simmer beneath.

Amy Jarecki

#50. What is the difference between a dream and its memory?

Sukanya Venkatraghavan

#51. Once a book has left the brain of the author, it took on a life of its own, and served as the only liaison between the reader and the author. If you read carefully, the book could tell you all sorts of secrets-sometimes about its characters, and sometimes about its creator.

Catherine Lowell

#52. A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence. Andrea MacPherson writes beautifully, balancing the lives of her characters between history and the poetry of gesture, secrets and love.

Ami McKay