Sharing Secrets Quotes:

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

- Erin Morgenstern

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

topic: Secret, Wells, Sharing Secrets

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Funny, Hilarious, 4th Of July, Secretive, Kept Secrets

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Secret, Share, Delicious, Sharing Secrets

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

topic: Dark, Long, Soul, Grinning, Gaiety

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

- Chanakya

topic: Education, Secret, Guru, Mantras, Bitter Truth

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

topic: Real, Secret, Important, Diminish, Sharing Secrets

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

- Holly Black

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

topic: Hurt, Skins, Peeling, Sharing Secrets

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

topic: Keeping Secrets, Best Kept Secrets, Criminal Mind, Kept Secrets, Darkest Secrets

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

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

topic: Men, Keeping Secrets, Needs, Sharing Secrets

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

source: FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Feb 03, 2012

topic: Real, Writing, Eye, Sharing Secrets

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

topic: Mom, Secret, Everyday, Live Everyday, Sharing Secrets