Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

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.

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

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

People are secretive when they have secrets.

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

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

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

I'm a pretty bad liar, and I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

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

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

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

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.

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.

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

No, I don’t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don’t know yet that a secret, like an animal, can evolve. Like an animal, a secret can develop a self-preserving intelligence. Shaglike, mute and thick, a knowledge with a fur: your secret.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

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

Secrets interest us all, I think.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.