"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

"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)

"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

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

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

"Light:L do you know gods of death love apples?

L: Damn you Kira!"
— Tsugumi Ohba

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

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

"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)

"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

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

" 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)

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

"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."
— Rumi Jalalu'l-Din

"I'll tell you a secret.

Old storytellers never die.

They disappear into their own story."
— Vera Nazarian