Olive Schreiner Quotes

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

I took a deep breath. "Are you free tonight?" There was a long, pregnant pause. "What about the man in the dream?" he finally asked. "There is no man in the dream.

For some reason, it didn’t feel right. Victor’s words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he’d come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn’t all. Something else was coming. There is more.

Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Hide nothing, for time, which sees all and hears all, exposes all.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

I love playing characters that have secrets.

You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.

If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

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

Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.

To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.

When the world is pregnant with lies, a secret long hidden will be revealed.

What lies lurk in kisses.

Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me ... no competition ... best thing that ever happened to you ... " " I don't remember that last part," I say, hoping it's too dim in here for the cameras to pick up my blush. " Oh, that's right. That's what I was thinking," he says " Scoot over, I'm freezing.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

Inside everybody's hiding something.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

You think I'm in love, that I'm sent from above, I'm not that innocent.