Quotes of: Secret-agent Keyword

I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.

Bag of Bones

They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.

Boy's Life

Run. Flee. Fuck off. Vanish from my presence and take the foul stench of your sordid secret with you.

The Bizarre Letters of St John Morris

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon

City of Fallen Angels

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Augusten Burroughs

To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a ...

Teju Cole

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

Brendon Urie

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

100 Love Sonnets

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

2010: Odyssey Two

One of the best parts of being a Guardian is that we get a chance to grow and change. We get to exist in both worlds. We know the secret of life and have the knowledge of death

Above

The secret to wealth is hard work and good management.

All You Have Is Now: How Your Approach to the World Determines Your Destiny

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

All Those Vanished Engines

Gods are great," said Atsula, slowly, as if she were imparting a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return...

American Gods

It was weird the way you could be friends with someone but not really know the ugly parts of their lives. We all had our secrets, I supposed.

Ask Again Later

He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, & will keep, for the rest of my life.

Allegiant

Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland.

The Husband's Secret

Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

Hold Still

Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets