#secrets

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#secrets #sharing-secrets #loyalty

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. ↗

— George Orwell

#secret

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

— Sara Gruen

#truth #secret

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #secrets #louisa-may-alcott

Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous over taking it. Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else's most secret self. Everyone wants to allow someone into their most secret self. Everyone feels so alone inside that their deepest wish is for someone to know their secret being, because then they are alone no longer. Don't we all long for this? Yet when it's offered it's frightening, because you might not live up to the desires of the one who bestows the gift. And frightening because you know that accepting such a gift means you'll want-perhaps be expected- to offer a similar gift in return. Which means giving your *self* away. And what's more frightening than that? ↗

— Aidan Chambers

#giving #secrets #self #sharing-secrets #funny

There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#between #different #england #know #people

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#most #nation #nuclear #protected #secrets

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#everybody #human #human nature #i #just

The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people. ↗

— Hugo Black

#fathers #founding #founding fathers #free #free press