Cornelia Parker Quotes

I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.

The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true.

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

The public never ought to have become aware of this matter.

A book is only dangerous when it unmasks something that many people want hidden or it brings to the forefront an issue that many want marginalized.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

There are things I cannot say.

Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

Wizards are a secretive lot.

A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.

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

Once form has been smashed, it has been smashed for good, and once a forbidden subject has been released, it has been released for good.

that's because it's from the night, and the night keeps secrets

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

I shall be as secret as the grave.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

People are secretive when they have secrets.