“A man can hide all things excepting twain - That he is drunk and that he is in love. ”

“A man can hide all things excepting twain - That he is drunk and that he is in love.”

“Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”

“As long as they don't know, I am safe”

“Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.”

“Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.”