Susan Griffin Quotes

A secret gets bigger and nastier the longer you don't talk about it.

Nothing weighs more than a secret.

Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.

I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave... and beyond!

The best way to keep a secret is to never have it.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.

Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.

Secrets interest us all, I think.

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.

Will holding a secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? Oh, if only the gods would be so good. (Catelyn)

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

The greatest sound in the theater is silence.

No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life.

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.

I think that the only way that you really keep it a secret is by not telling anyone.

Things keep their secrets.

Who's with her?" Roarke asked, though he already knew. It was just like her. "With her? Oh, ah, hmmm. Webster." Silence fell, a clatter of broken bricks. Peabody folded her hands in her pockets and prepared for the explosion to follow. "I see." When Roarke simply turned back to the screen and continued, she didn't know whether to be relieved or scared to death.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.