Samin Nosrat Quotes

I am best viewed from a distance... and at night.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

There's something so delicious about holding onto a secret; it's something just for you.

Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts.

No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

My mom's coming home soon," I said. "We should go to your place." Patch ran a hand across the shadow of stubble along his jaw. "I have rules about who I take there." I was getting really tired of that answer. "If you showed me, you'd have to kill me?" I guessed, fighting the urge to feel irritated. "Once I'm inside, I can never leave?" Patch studied me a moment. Then he reached into his pocket, twisted a key off his key chain, and slipped it into the front pocket of my pajama top. "Once you've gone inside, you have to keep coming back.

His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else.

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

Love is a secret society, a community for two.

People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.

It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?

It's all about knowing the balance, because I like to remain somewhat of a mystery. You need to have that, you know what I mean?

People don't know my real self, and they're not about to find out.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

Wizards are a secretive lot.

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.

I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.