Sharing Secrets Quotes

• Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Hilarious, 4th Of July

  Poor Richard's Almanac for 1735 and 1741.

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• But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

  Suzanne Collins

  Secret, Share, Delicious

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.171, Scholastic Inc.

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• And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loneliness, Dark, Long

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.19, Anchor

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• The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

  Chanakya

  Education, Secret, Guru

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• Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Real, Secret, Important

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• So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Secret, Wells

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.177, Random House

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• Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Skins, Peeling

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Keeping Secrets, Best Kept Secrets, Criminal Mind

  1898 Sir George Crofts. Mrs Warren's Profession, act 3.

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• Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

  Don DeLillo

  Men, Keeping Secrets, Needs

  1988 Walter Everett, Jr. Libra, pt.1,'17 April'.

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• Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Real, Writing, Eye

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Feb 03, 2012

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• Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Mom, Secret, Everyday

  Lurlene McDaniel (2012). “The End of Forever”, p.136, Laurel Leaf

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