Nora Roberts Quotes

Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

It may be tempting to yield to the seductive allure of secrecy in order to preserve the illusion of security.

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.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

I don't want people to know who I am.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!

Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.

I definitely keep myself secret.

The hearts of freemen are the tombs of secrets.

It is only puny secrets that need protecting. Great secrets are protected by public incredulity.

I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.

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

Don't lie, but don't tell the whole truth.

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.

And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

What lies lurk in kisses.