Amy Tan Quotes

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

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.

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 knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.

But there can be no secrets in a house where there are children.

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.

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

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.

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

You should be able to tell your child, "This is an actor. And she's older than Mommy!"

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

Things keep their secrets.

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.

Watch over our child. Guide him safely from the ways of harm. Keep happy his heart, brave his soul, and rosy his cheeks. Guard with your life his hopes and dreams, for he is all that we have, all that we are, and all that we will ever be.

You're only as sick as your secrets.