Erik Larson Quotes

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

Bones, what is everyone doing in here? Spade, cover up. Frigging vampires think everyone wants to see what they've got." ~Cat

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

Hiding is for amateurs.

Somebody is always hiding something.

You cannot hide an eele in a sacke.

Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

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.

It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

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

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Now you see me, now you don't. George thinks he will, but I know he won't!

Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

A plot begins when somebody has something to hide.

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

I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

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