Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

I think my friends tell me their deepest darkest secrets only because they know it won't ever come out.

Tell no one the secret that you want to keep, although he may be worthy of confidence; for no one will be so careful of your secret as yourself.

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,--not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness.

Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets.

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

I fear no secret of a person I trust, and he has no need to fear mine. It is part of being friends.

A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

Why is it that some secrets can drown you while some pull you close to others in a way you never want to lose?

One person can keep a secret, but not two.

I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

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