Tea Obreht Quotes

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

It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.

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)

Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.

I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

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.

Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?

We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.

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

Nothing weighs more than a secret.

Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.

I'm a confession that is waiting to be heard

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

And when you have it, what then? Some secrets are safer kept hidden. Some secrets are too dangerous to share, even with those you love and trust.

Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.

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 great for acting. Secrets are the best thing in the world for acting, because they keep you looking like you have something in the back of your mind.

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

Everybody has a secret and everybody has problems.

...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.