Rachel Cohn Quotes

When men hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

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

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Silence kills scandal.

Okay, that really shouldn't have happened. And we’re not going to talk about that, right? Ever?” “Right,” she said. She felt like there was light dripping from her fingertips. Spilling out of her toes. She felt full of light, in fact, warm buttery sunlight. “Never happened.” He opened his mouth, then closed it, and closed his eyes. “Claire—” “I know.” “Lock the door,” he said.

But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on.

The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

Interested in some ‘undercover’ work? And to think, I was actually having a tender thought about you. Do yourself a favor, Steele…Become mute.

It requires as much to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.