1,170 Quotes About Secrets

Passing on information to a friend "was no breach of promise of secrecy . . . because it was no more than telling it to oneself.

In truth, this was a bad thing that Yan Chang had done, telling me my mother’s story. Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

Tell me no secrets unless intended to elicit joy; secrets for any other purpose inherit the power of pain.

And now I enjoy the fact that I have this alter blog persona that nobody in my life know about. I have a secret. I am somebody important. I have the paychecks to prove it. The fact that nobody knows about it makes me feel even more important.

By telling me, you trapped me," I say through my teeth. "By telling you," she whispers, rain still glistening on her, "I was free.

She had done this thing to me, burdened me with this vile, howling thing. And now it shuddered in me always and I'd felt I might have to live with it forever. I was right.

If you love someone, set them free. What a load of bollocks.

It isn’t the words we speak that make us who we are. Or even the deeds we do. It is the secrets buried in our hearts.

That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.