Karen Russell Quotes

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

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.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

Would the world be any more dangerous if we did without secrets all together.

Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

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.

...all them things I don't know could get you killed if I come to know them

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

Three things know a secret- First; the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning, And a maid that does not scream.

Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed.

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

We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love.

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

I wanted so badly to tell him, but something about that entire night seemed so beautiful, so bizarre, that I didn't trust it with my secrets.

Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

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.

Love is durable. It's like Teflon. ...Trust is like fine china. Secrets destroy trust.

Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other way, he’d been honest with me and shared the hard truths nobody else thought I deserved to hear.

Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.

Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

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