Jim Crace Quotes

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.

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.

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.

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.

Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

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

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

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

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

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

Things can’t be kept secret forever.

There ain't no secrets in this town.

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

Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.

Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

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

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

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.