Gayle Forman Quotes

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

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

Secrets are hard but solvable problems and we should talk about them. It's hard to work toward a radically better future if you don't believe in secrets.

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

Secrets interest us all, I think.

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Nature, keeping only useless secrets, had placed within reach and in sight of human beings the things it was necessary for them to know.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where the many aspects of human potential, good and/or bad, are most readily magnified.

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do with piecing together new thoughts in your mind. Why is it that people think it's so evil ? What is it about it that scares people so deeply, even the guy that invented it, what is it ? Because they're afraid that there's more to reality than they have confronted. That there are doors that they're afraid to go in, and they don't want us to go in there either, because if we go in we might learn something that they don't know. And that makes us a little out of their control.

It makes me crazy to think that somebody might attack my city or any other city.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Even if you're an adult you still have secrets and scandals following you.

The feeling of New Orleans is so pervasive. It's such a strange and decadent and enchanted embrace that that city has. There's a dark magic present. It's no wonder that it's been the hot bed for so much vampiric folklore. The city has got an ancient quality. It's one of the oldest cities in North America.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.

This story is about people,secrets and time.About people who, not unlike parcels,hide secrets,who cover themselves with layers until they present themselves to the right ones who can unwrap them and see inside.