Robin McKinley Quotes

There are more secrets, but there is not more secrecy.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

You know the thing that interests me about 'Unsolved Mysteries?' It's because there are people out there, people who know something, who may have the one final clue.

I like there to be some secrets.

Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

Hide nothing. It always gets found out.

The truth won't stay hidden and will come out.

Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.

Who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

There are no secrets.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

There can be...no power...to disclose...the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them until the day when all hidden things be revealed.

Too pissed off to cry, I said, 'This is only making me hate her. I don't want to hate her. And what's the point, if that's all it's making me do?' Still refusing to answer how and why questions. Still insisting on an aura of mystery. I leaned forward, head between by knees, and the Colonel placed a head on my upper back. 'The point is that there are always alsweres, Pudge.' And then he pushed air out between his pursed lips and I could hear the angry quiver in his voice as he repeated, 'There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.' ~Miles/Pudge and Chip/the Colonel, pg 168

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.

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.