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“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...”
“There is no success where there are no secrets.”
“There is nothing more destructive to the human soul than the secrets we keep from each other.”
“I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.”
“I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark.”
“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.”
“Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?”
“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.”
“He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.”
“He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldnt share them all at once.”
“But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep.”
“Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out.”
“The problem with secrets is that they don't want to stay that way. They say information wants to be free. And maybe that's the case. But what I do know is that every story wants to be told. You can...”
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
“Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.”
“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.”
