Top 61 Quotes About Family Secrets
#1. 'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.
Jane Ridley
#2. We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled.
Kenny Loggins
#3. What is most important to understand about dysfunctional families is that in keeping the family "secrets," we are harming ourselves and diminishing our ability to be honest and open-hearted with ourselves and others we care about
Katherine Mayfield
#4. After all, aren't housekeepers the bearers of all family secrets
Saleem Haddad
#5. The number of family secrets is just staggering.
Jill A. Davis
#6. I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education
show and tell. Show and Tell is a device created by grammar schools to communicate family secrets to 32 other families before 9:15 am in the morning.
Robert Orben
#7. 'Run' is exciting, about family secrets, the mystery surrounding them and the outdoor sport of parkour. The story itself is full of intrigue and action, but the parkour takes the story to another level. It was an absolutely incredible experience, working with experts from all over the country.
Kelsey Chow
#8. I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
Nancy Werlin
#9. Remember what I told you about family secrets." People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman's rocking didn't change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room.
B. J. Daniels
#10. The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.
Stewart O'Nan
#11. I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
Ottessa Moshfegh
#12. [On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.
Barbara Neely
#13. One soul at a time, one book at a time, the goal of changing racist actions and behavior as described in my book, FAMILY SECRETS: A JOURNEY OF GOD AND EVIL.
Fran White
#14. He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his family, to his own shivering young soul, long ago and in a land far away.
Cassandra Clare
#15. I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.
Naomi Judd
#16. Millions of Indonesians who live with secrets in their family who have a sense of that kind of secret that their parents never told them, want to be told about what happened so they can know where they come from.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#17. Memories, good and bad, can be used to help us heal if we don't let ourselves be mired down in them.
Sarah Jo Smith
#18. He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships
Henry Cloud
#19. Women always reveal their deepest secrets to each other.
Liane Moriarty
#20. There was no mistaking her daughter's handwriting. And the words... "If you're reading this, I'm already dead.
Elizabeth Heiter
#21. An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
Sara Sheridan
#22. Some people think family's about DNA, but it ain't. It's about the folks who want you, who stick with you no matter what. They know your secrets and flaws, and you know theirs, and you love each other anyway.
Kim Fielding
#23. There are secrets in all families, you know.
Jane Austen
#24. Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.
Diane Samuels
#25. When no one is left to tell what happened, family histories keep their secrets.
Carmen Posadas
#26. We discover, often too late to talk to him about it, an episode from his life that a loved one has concealed from you. Has he really hidden it from you? He has forgotten, or more likely, over time, he no longer thinks about it. Or, quite simply, he can't find the words.
Patrick Modiano
#27. How do you look at your best friend the same way again when you know the flavor of his mouth?
J.M. Stewart
#29. Breathe, Emma. Now is not the time to swoon.
Eva Walker
#30. You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets.
Jenna Morasca
#31. Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their fathers by keeping secrets.
Beatrix Campbell
#32. The story of my family ... changes with the teller.
Jennifer Haigh
#33. The greatest secret of life is never give up. Don't give up on yourself, your dreams and your family.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!
Charles Dickens
#35. Work! Look at the secrets to success, look at your family, your community, your culture, take a look at what they have done to be successful and don't fool yourself. Don't think that you are going to get success on discount.
Eric Thomas
#36. You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road
Salena Godden
#37. You did everything they needed." "Can I be what you need, too?" I ask. I feel her nod against my chest. And my fucking heart takes flight. She can keep her secrets if she needs to. But I'm here to take her burden if she wants that, the same way I take theirs. Because she's family. My family.
Tammy Falkner
#38. Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.
Liane Moriarty
#39. They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we pay for the woundings of our ancestors.
Nayomi Munaweera
#40. I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself ...
Jennifer Haigh
#41. On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.
Marcia Sirota
#42. When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
#44. Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets ...
Dennis Miller
#45. The thing about families, Arlo thought, was that there was always some question nobody wanted to answer for you, and it was like a stray thread pulling loose in a sweater. You could tug at it all you wanted, but in the end, all you'd have was a pile of twisted yarn.
Sarah Sullivan
#46. Nightmares and secrets. Ewan wished he knew what had happened to these girls before he found them.
C.J. Milbrandt
#47. His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased.
Kristen Iversen
#48. The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#49. Every family has secrets, Reena, and they're there for a reason.
Renita D'Silva
#50. But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly.
Ruta Sepetys
#51. And now we're apart and you're just some stranger who knows all my secrets and all my family members and all my quirks and flaws and it doesn't make sense.
Gaby Dunn
#52. Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.
Tyler Perry
#53. Maybe we should open a bottle of champagne," Maddy said, glaring at the two women. "A toast to keeping secrets . . . where would a family be without 'em?
Barbara Bretton
#54. 'Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#55. Don't even try making out I'm making this up. I've got proof. Evidence.
Diane Samuels
#56. There is too much at stake to chance rocking the boat by holding on to highly inflated expectations. Keeping our relationships intact and pretending they're successful, even if they aren't, is the price we must pay to harbor our deepest secrets.
Sarah Jo Smith
#57. Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
Edmund Leach
#58. These secrets came down my own ornately curved and twisting family line. For family stories are never as direct as history books, and therefore they are more true.
Liz Rosenberg
#59. My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. Viktor, what?
Gwenn Wright
#60. The Divines may have taken our homes, our friends, our family, but what we had now we would fight to keep hold of.
And if the Divines did decide to try and take it, they'd have a hell of a fight on their hands.
Violet Cross
#61. Girls like me smiled politely and always did the right thing. Girls like me definitely didn't sneak away at night to do things that would crush their fathers. And if they did, girls like me knew how to keep it to themselves.
Robin Talley
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