Top 49 Secrets We Keep Quotes
#1. Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of our acts, real or imagined, and the secrets we keep about them.
Sharon Salzberg
#3. That's the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.
Ally Carter
#4. Everyone thinks that. It's one of those little secrets we keep from each other. Show me a serious man and I'll show you a man who has never wept. Show me a madman and I'll show you a man who dried his tears a long time ago. Go ahead." "I
Ray Bradbury
#5. There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.
Ally Carter
#6. We all have secrets we keep locked away from the rest of the world. Friendship we pretend. Relationships we hide. But worst of all is the love we never let show; the most dangerous secret a person can bury are those we keep for ourselves.
Kevin McCarty
#7. I think we all have a kind of dark side, and that's what keeps life - and characters - interesting. That's one of the things that I'm drawn to write about again and again, the secrets we keep and how they shape us.
Jennifer McMahon
#8. A haunting, harrowing punch to the heart, Among the Missing is flat-out brilliant. About the secrets we keep, the lives we are desperate to live, and the chances we miss, it's a psychological dazzler. Truly, one of my favorite books of this year-or any year.
Caroline Leavitt
#9. Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
Alice Hoffman
#10. The sea has had Conrad and Stevenson and Masefield, but the mountains continue to defy the written word. We have climbed their highest peaks and crossed their most difficult passes, but still they keep their secrets and their reserve; they remain remote, mysterious, spirit-haunted.
Ruskin Bond
#11. Our parents don't know us ... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.
Ellen Sussman
#12. With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.
Frederick Buechner
#13. Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Elbert Hubbard
#14. 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
#15. Deep, dark secrets always hurt to share. That's why we keep them in the deep dark.
Roxanne St. Claire
#17. Our street corners keep secrets, and our road signs only suggest,
never deciding for us, never knowing if the destination to which they lead is where we truely belong.
Alex Gaskarth
#18. I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.
Sarah Dessen
#20. Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
Jeanette Winterson
#21. God forbid we keep a couple secrets in this day and age!
Joey McIntyre
#22. Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.
Hal Duncan
#23. Things change," Daja said softly. "We change with them. We sail before the wind. We become adults. As adults, we keep our minds and our secrets hidden, and our wounds. It's safer.
Tamora Pierce
#24. Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?
Anne Rice
#25. Bruna nodded. We keep the knowledge of the old world for the day it will be needed again, but that knowledge comes with a great responsibility. If the histories of the ancient wars of man tell us anything, it's that men cannot be trusted with the secrets of fire.
Peter V. Brett
#26. The secrets of dreams keep us safe
Reminding our subconscious
Of what we can't face in our waking hours.
Sandra Easter
#27. Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.
Frank Warren
#28. We all have our secrets that we keep because we do not want to hurt the people who love us
Cassandra Clare
#29. Will you promise to keep this to yourself, to not tell anyone of what we are? By his words you'd think he was giving me a choice. Like I could say,no deal, honey bunch, I'm off to shout your secret from the rooftops, and he'd be like, oh no please don't do that. In
reality, he'd have to kill me.
L. H. Cosway
#30. We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be.
Lauren London
#31. There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves.
Frank Warren
#32. We can never know the origins of the universe. The deepest secrets are the ones that keep themselves.
John D. Barrow
#33. With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put there.
Trisha Leaver
#34. I promise to tell you everything you want, but first I want something from you in return.
What do you want? Olivia asked.
I want a kiss, William said. You and I, we're making a deal of sorts ... a bargain that we will keep each other's secrets ...
Evette Davis
#35. Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what make it perfect.
Trisha Leaver
#36. HAN: 'Tis said that sometimes those who knew us in
Our youth did know us best. From them we have
No secrets and cannot pretend to be
Another thing that what we are. They keep
Our living honest, for they know who we
Have been.
Ian Doescher
#37. We're going to be okay.
Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.
Ally Carter
#38. His eyes follow me everywhere, and we keep sharing smiles that feel like secrets.(Kiersten White)
Stephanie Perkins
#39. I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
Trisha Leaver
#40. There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves.
Frank Warren
#41. We share shit. We're soulmates. We don't keep secrets.
Elle Casey
#43. We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.
Michelle Moran
#44. Secrets.
We keep them to protect ourselves.
We keep them to protect others.
We keep them out of shame.
We keep them out of fear.
We keep them... wait... do we keep them for do they keep us?
Ellen Hopkins
#45. The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
Alexander Smith
#46. A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.
Jane Hirshfield
#47. I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?
Emily Giffin
#48. 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
#49. We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.
Susan Griffin
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
