Jodi Picoult Quotes

Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.

There are various ways of keeping truth out of sight.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a secret still.

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

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

Everyone has secrets. It's just a matter of finding out what they are

Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.

The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are the people with something to hide.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Efforts to conceal the truth will not and do not negate the facts.

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves

I know that you cannot banish the truth permanently, you can only cloud it temporarily.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

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

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

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.

Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.