Secrets In Family Quotes

#1. There are secrets in all families, you know.

Jane Austen

#2. 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

#3. You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road

Salena Godden

#4. 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

#5. 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

#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. 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

#8. I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

Naomi Judd

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. When no one is left to tell what happened, family histories keep their secrets.

Carmen Posadas

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Don't even try making out I'm making this up. I've got proof. Evidence.

Diane Samuels

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#23. 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

#24. 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