Mark Lawrence Quotes

In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. And we're still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life.

But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.

Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.

Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other way, he’d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Toward the end of their relationship she'd told him once, "I wish I could give you what you're looking for, but I don't know what it is. There's a part of you that you keep closed off from everyone, including me. Its as if I'm not the one you're really with. Your mind is on someone else." He tried to deny it, but she didn't believe him. "I'm a woman - I know these things. When you look at me sometimes, I know you're seeing someone else. Its like you keep waiting for her to pop out of thin air to take you away from all this.

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

Think about Mann's own daily routine (ascribed to Aschenbach), read the extant diaries and the letters in which he discusses the novella's themes, and it won't be so obvious that the attraction to Tadzio is completely unprecedented; it also won't be obvious that what Aschenbach wants is full sexual contact.

Sometimes I feel very guilty, so I don't know if I am a clear example of a perfect father, because sometimes I also just punish myself, saying I'm not doing probably the right thing at this particular moment. It's a secret.

You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.