Emma Donoghue Quotes

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.

Even if you hurt my feelings and you lie, be a man and admit it. I'd rather someone be honest to me.

Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.

I think secrets are something that you keep or are afraid to share because you think they're going to harm you in some way. So if you don't have any secrets, then there's no way anyone can harm you.

Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

In order to be transparent, you really have to be completely honest and open, so that's how I've lived my life, and that's where I am now. I am completely transparent. There's nothing that you can't ask me and nothing I won't talk about.

Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what's going to maintain relationships.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.