Ann Cleeves Quotes

There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

Everyone has secrets, and I think some people flee from home - far from home - to try to keep those secrets.

There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

Everybody has something to conceal.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

No, I don’t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don’t know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.

Everyone has something to hide. And if they couldn't hide it the world would be in a lot worse mess than it is.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

Repeat nothing - absolutely nothing - that is told you in confidence. There is no such thing as telling just one person.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.

I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.