Keeping Secrets Quotes

“It seemed to Ellie that you could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret—by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, This Is What Happy Looks Like

“Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Augustine’s lips tense into a line. “Oh, for the gods’ sakes, Little Jac,” he snaps. “We know Lucent wasn’t just your riding companion.” At her stunned expression, Augustine laughs. “You are good at many things, but you are horrible at keeping your love interests a secret.”
― Marie Lu, The Midnight Star

“There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“A secret that has been buried too long, eating a hole in me, worms its way to the surface, like a swimmer who can't hold his breath any longer.”
― Michael R French, Once Upon a Lie

“Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I’d have to let the dog eat her.)”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“the safest place to keep your secrets is to keep them in your mind with a locked tongue”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“To render help is human.
To keep it secret is divine.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me."

Whatever was told to Zinat invariably lit up the telephone network, rebounded off aerials, radio waves, and satellites along the way, picked up finally by advanced alien civilizations as it bounced through the atmosphere of planets far removed from this one.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“And even honorable men keep secrets for the safety of those they love.”
― Micheline Ryckman, The Maiden Ship

“Sometimes we must do what we can to keep our mistakes a secret, don't we?”
― Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

“More people would open up about themselves if the kind in humankind meant humans were kind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“When she was starting out as an actress, a well-known director had leaned over his script, straightened his Coke-bottle glasses, and told Laurel she hadn't the looks to play leading roles. The advice had stung, and she'd wailed and railed, and then spent hours catching herself accidentally on purpose in the mirror before hacking her long hair short in the grip of drunken bravura. But it had proven a "moment" in her career. She was a character actress. The director cast her as the leading lady's sister, and she garnered her first rave reviews. People marveled at her ability to build characters from the inside out, to submerge herself and disappear beneath the skin of another person, but there was no trick to it; she merely bothered to learn the character's secrets. Laurel knew quite a bit about keeping secrets. She also knew that was where the real people were found, hiding behind their black spots.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper

“Society must show that blue-collar crime never pays. Insidious white-collar crime pays very well, and nothing is declared. It's the same reason why Financial Education, probably the most important subject of all, is absent from the general school curriculum - to keep the have-nots ignorant and the establishment's riches safe.”
― Stewart Stafford

“about putting on the light in a dark room. He told me that when we keep secrets they grow inside us, and we can’t see the truth of them anymore.”
― Jacqueline Winspear, To Die But Once

“Zache watched in expectant silence as he struggled for the words to explain himself. Finally, in an
uncertain tone, he ventured, “I guess…when you’ve kept a secret for a long time, somehow keeping it becomes more important than the secret itself.”
― Felicia Watson, Spooky Action at a Distance

“Azriel asked, 'And Feyre still doesn't know?'

'No. She knows the birth will be difficult, but I haven't told her yet that it might very well claim her life.' Rhys spoke into their minds, as if he couldn't say it aloud, I haven't told her that the nightmares that now send me lurching from sleep aren't ones of the past, but of the future.

Cassian squeezed Rhys's shoulder, 'Why won't you tell her.'

Rhys's throat worked. 'Because I can't bring myself to give her that fear. To take away one bit of the joy in her eyes every time she puts a hand on her belly.' HIs voice shook. 'It is fucking eating me alive, this terror. I keep myself busy, but... there is no one to bargain with for her life, no amount of wealth to buy it, nothing that I can do to save her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames