“Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.”
“We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don t judge.”
“Don t you ever want to have just one thing that no one else knows about, so no one can ruin it for you?”
“Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.”
“I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.”
“Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things.”
“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”
“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you re depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin - everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone - and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you?”
“Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.”
“This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.”
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”
“If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.”
“The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there when we think we are alone. Think of what they could tell us. They sit on the laps of presidents. They see acts of love and violence, quarrels and feuds, and the secret play of children. If they could tell us everything they have seen, all of the gaps of our lives would stitch themselves together.”
“No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave.”
“THE LUXE IS . . . Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan in 1899.”
“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”
“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”