Secret Keeping Quotes

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“The rest of the small half-moon beach was covered in a thick layer of broken shells, a jumble of crustacean parts, and crab claws. Shells the best secret-keepers of all.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Knowing she was a poor liar under pressure kept him from telling her the truth. He remembered far too many occasions as kids when they had formulated a story to stay out of trouble with their parents and she had blown it within seconds.”
― Nicole Douglas, Afraid to Fall

“Laurel had been thinking a lot lately about secrets, about how difficult they were to keep, and the habit they had of lurking quietly beneath the surface before sneaking all of a sudden through a crack in their keeper's resolve.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper