Secrets And Lies Quotes

“Ben was possessed by an urgency, a need. The reputation of the church was at stake. His reputation was at stake. If he didn’t fix this, it would all come out:”
― Brian J. Twiddy, Blessing

“So let me get this straight. You left this ‘fabulous job’ as you put it, so you could be a dog-sitter in Fort Langley?”
― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

“No. I need to finish this. But can you leave the recorder off? Please? And I need your promise that you will never share what I am about to tell you with another soul.”
 
“Yes, of course. I promise, Freida.”
 
She sat quietly, staring at nothing in particular. I didn’t rush her.
 
“I caught them.” It was barely a whisper and I almost missed it.
 ”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder at Tutley Brewery: A Jack Ludefance Novel

“Aida watches Dennis open his tobacco pouch and stuff his pipe. As a child she was entranced by the process, and the glamorous stink of it, the special words: flake, shag, shank, dottle. He told her that each pipe had its own ghost, which is the taste when you suck it, empty and cold. Sometimes he let her taste the ghost.”
― Lesley Glaister, A Particular Man

“They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.”
― Nayomi Munaweera, What Lies Between Us

“The problem is I've too many secrets and sometimes it's hard to keep up with your own lies.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“Writing Skinny Chris was a very odd process – it felt like I had brought back to life a dead man and then killed him again.”
― Carla H. Krueger

“Did it hurt when your own soul ate you alive? It will hurt more when your secrets come to gnaw at your marrow.”
― Courtney M. Privett, Faelost

“Lies were a mask I wore to protect my thoughts and feelings, while secrets were usually the playground my lies played in. Without them, I felt raw and exposed. I had nowhere to hide.”
― Brianne Davis, Secret Life of a Hollywood Sex & Love Addict: A Novel

“It's harder to kill a phantom than a reality. - Virginia Woolf”
― S.K. Grice

“Hakim bit into his bottom lip, and I stirred his eyebrow. He closed his eyes and stated, "Mandisa, I can't lie to you about my past anymore. Things keep coming up that I thought would be buried, and I don't want you to believe that I'm the person I used to be."

"What are you talking about, Hakim? Everyone has a past and secrets. Look at mine? I have lived my life like an animal inside a cage poked at and put on display. I have issues, and I know this, but I do not ask any of you to do anything more than be my friend," I explained, pulling him closer for a hug.”
― Sistar SunRA, Queen of Hearts

“We went to the cemetery that day, resolved to confirm once and for all the truth of the story that great-great-grandmother Nicolasa was buried alongside Gregorio the priest.”
― Renato Cisneros, Dejarás la tierra

“Men seldom enjoy learning the secrets we women make for them to appear more than they are.”
― Byrd Nash, Delicious Death

“Because you are my sunshine, Autumn Berkley.”
― Vanessa Linhares, Peyton

“Jump”. I do, and he catches me. Like he always does.”
― Vanessa Linhares, Peyton

“Secrets don’t like to be locked up. They’re like rats, they’ll bite you if you back them into a corner.”
― David Thewlis, The Late Hector Kipling

“A city built on secrets never stays quiet for long”
― Anne Camille, The Line Between Us