Bell Hooks Quotes

One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

I think intimacy is the last taboo in many ways.

People tell all sorts of lies in order to live. That enables friendships to form and love to blossom.

Who’ll come lie down in the dark with me Belly to belly and knee to knee Who’ll look into my hooded eye Who’ll lie down under my darkened thigh?

If a secret is revealed, the person who has confided it to another is to be blamed.

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

Entrust a secret to one whose importance will not be much increased by divulging it.

What happens in Vegas, I'm telling everyone.

You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.

I think it became blurry because I grew up in a very private family. I mixed privacy and secrecy up somewhere along the line. Everything became a secret, and I thought that was how you should live. Lying about everything. The mask I put on as a kid to survive was the funny lady. Then the funny person all of a sudden became harder to do without substances. Substances let me keep the mask on longer. Until it doesn't work anymore and you're just a mess.

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell.

To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

...I just pulled a pretty big job and needed to hide out for awhile." "...Where's all the loot?" "That, as my cousin Nord would say, is where my improvised lie falls apart." Artemis put two and two together and arrived at a very unpleasant four. "You were here to rob me!" "No, I wasn't. How dare you?!

When you tell a secret - always know it will be told.

I don't like people probing into my life, so I reveal as little as possible or lie about it as much as need be so as to give them something to write about.

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.

You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves