Small oval metal lockets form a grid against a plum background, with one open locket showing a dark interior.

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Joe Hallenbeck

The sky is blue, water is wet, women have secrets.

— The Last Boy Scout · 1991

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker lists things that need no proof, then slips "women have secrets" into the same set, treating it as equally obvious. It is a deadpan, sweeping generalisation, offered as the speaker's worldview rather than a fact, with the punch coming from that flat confidence.

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