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“They don't know you're secretly a badass?”
― Rachel Caine, Fall of Night

“MY SECRET IDENTITY IS

The room is empty,
And the window is open”
― Charles Simic, The World Doesn't End

“My mom once told me that my dad had given me an alliterative name, Wade Watts, because he thought it sounded like the secret identity of a superhero. Like Peter Parker or Clark Kent.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Mr. Schock smiled at Peter and raised his hand into the air. Peter instinctively struck it in a perfect high five. Mr. Schock's smile transformed into a puzzeled frown.
"Joshua, how did you...?"
"Peter used to do it," said Peter swiftly.”
― Linda Buckley-Archer, The Time Thief

“We all want to live in a world where we can make a difference... That's why Spider-Man fights the good fight. Or Captain Marvel. Or me. Or... There are a lot of us. And we don't all wear masks these days. Iron Man went public. So did Captain America. Others. Probably because it's harder to keep secrets in an internet surveillance age. But I think some of it, too, is that the ethical paradox can wear you down. No one on the white-hat side has ever hidden his or her identity with less than noble intent: to make the fight about something bigger than us. To represent a greater justice, where the focus can be on right and wrong... and not on whether the bad guys will exact reprisal on those close to us. And sometimes you have to lie... because you can justify a lie if lives are riding on it. Even as you fight for, as the saying goes, truth and justice... even if you're a lawyer who has sworn to live by the truth... you willingly bear false witness.”
― Mark Waid, Daredevil, Volume 7

“I'm not good at the friends thing. I'm the human equivalent of one of those baby birds that fall out of a nest and then some nice person picks the baby bird up and puts it back. Except that now the baby bird smells all wrong. I think I smell wrong.”
― Kelly Link

“Lois, Superman is what I can do. Clark is who I am.”
― Clark Kent

“Anybody with martial training and engineering skills can be a superhero, but that doesn’t make them a hero. Superhero culture is dangerous, for it facilitates a paradigm of secret identity. And consistent practice of such secrecy eventually ruins an individual's accountability. You don't see soldiers hiding their identity do you, no matter how much they've got to lose!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel

“You’ll never know their names. You’ll never recognize their faces as a life that you helped to save. But after tonight, you might walk the streets of Seattle and wonder whether the woman behind you in line at the coffee shop is one of them. Or maybe it will be the person at the grocery store in front of you that is trying to count exact change just to avoid using a credit card. These Nameless Women are all around us, even if they haven’t been able to change their names. I am one of them.”
― Ann Edwards, The Nameless Women Project

“Acting jealous was wrong, and Kat felt happy with her life...even if she wished she could brag about how she saved lives and defeated an evil genius today. Sometimes, having a secret identity stunk.”
― Austin Stack, Kat Doggers: Superspy: Book 1 of the Kat Doggers Series

“She closes the drapes over the view, which is just another building, glass-fronted like the elevators. As if nobody could ever get anything done if the world wasn't watching, or maybe because if the world can look in and see what you're doing then what you're doing has to be valuable and important and aboveboard. It's a far way down to the street, so far down that the window in Paul Zell's hotel room doesn't open, probably because people like Billie can't help imagining what it would be like to fall.”
― Kelly Link, Get in Trouble

“I didn’t come here to be interrogated,â€� I snapped. “What of all your attentions toward Calantha?â€�

His shoulders pulled back. “I suppose we’re both putting on the performances of our lives.�

His accusatory tone made my anger spark into a fire. “Performance? Is that what you call it? You lied to me. Your life’s complicated. °Õ³ó²¹³Ù’s what you told me. Complicated?â€�

“What are you dredging up? Last night or Terravin?�

“You act as if it happened ten years ago! You have such an interesting way with words. Your life isn’t complicated. You’re the blazing crown prince of Dalbreck! You call that a complication? But you went on and on about growing melons and tending horses and how your parents were dead. You shamelessly told me you were a farmer!�

“You claimed you were a tavern maid!�

“I was! I served tables and washed dishes! Have you ever grown a melon in your life? Yet you piled on lie after lie, and it never occurred to you to tell me the truth.�

“What choice did I have? I heard you call me a princely papa’s boy behind my back! One you could never respect!�

My mouth fell open. “You spied on me?� I whirled around, shaking my head in disbelief, crossing the room, then whipping back to face him. �You spied? Your duplicities never end, do they?�

He took an intimidating step closer. “Maybe if a certain tavern maid had bothered to tell me the truth first, I wouldn’t have felt that I had to hide who I was!�

I matched him step for angry step. “Maybe if a self-important prince had bothered to come see me before the wedding as I had asked, we wouldn’t be here now at all!�

“Is that so? Well, maybe if someone had asked with an ounce of diplomacy instead of commanding like a spoiled royal bitch, I would have come!�

I shook with rage. “Maybe someone was too scared out of her wits to properly choose her words for His Royal Pompous Ass!”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Heart of Betrayal

“In that moment, Silla made herself a vow. She would never allow another to know her true name. She would hold it so tightly she strangled it from this world.”
― Demi Winters, Kingdom of Claw

“He kissed her deeply then, pouring all his heart into their interweaving lips and souls. This kiss held love, not lust; promise, not hope; relief, not fear.”
― Mihwa Lee, Saving Mr. Pembroke: A steamy, smutty, witty Regency Interracial romance novel, and Happily Ever After, Regency romance book for women on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited, Rogues Worth Saving Series Book 2