“That was the secret to maintaining lies: not trying to hide them.”
“There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.”
“She glances at each of her three companions, at the protective veneers they’re all wearing, trying to mask the different lies they’ve told one another. The lies they’re all continuing to try to maintain. Hoping these lies will carry them through the rest of their full and satisfying lives, despite the truths they’ve chosen not to tell the most important people in their worlds.”
“Look, Axel. We all do have secrets. We try to hide them from the others, we keep them down, in a dark cellar of our mind, hoping they will never come back, haunting us.Dr. Henry Hart”
“Familiarity does not breed contempt. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to hide the secret conviction that they’re boring.”
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”