Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

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

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.

The heart cherishes secrets not worth the telling

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

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

Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

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

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

Everyone has a secret. Right? Of course I have a secret. I think maybe you too?

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

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

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

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

Secrets interest us all, I think.

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

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

It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112

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?

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

You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that.

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

It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.