Confidences Quotes

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”
― Lauren Oliver , Before I Fall

“Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous over taking it.
Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else's most secret self. Everyone wants to allow someone into their most secret self. Everyone feels so alone inside that their deepest wish is for someone to know their secret being, because then they are alone no longer. Don't we all long for this? Yet when it's offered it's frightening, because you might not live up to the desires of the one who bestows the gift. And frightening because you know that accepting such a gift means you'll want-perhaps be expected- to offer a similar gift in return. Which means giving your *self* away. And what's more frightening than that?”
― Aidan Chambers, This Is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn

“She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable.”
― Sándor Márai, Embers

“We are bound by the secrets we share.”
― Zoe Heller, What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]

“Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.”
― Donna Jo Napoli, Bound

“How she wished she had Elizabeth to herself for a little so they could discuss what Henry's real intentions were and also how high and mighty Penelope had acted at lunch and what a tremendous insult it was that she'd come at all and did anyone really think she was beautiful with those oversize features anyway.”
― Anna Godbersen, Envy

“It was never a good idea to confide in people. They always remembered, and when they came up to you in the street, years later, you could see the information was still firmly attached to your face and present in the way they said your name and the pressure of their hand clasping yours.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“Very unlikely people, you know, will share confidences with each other if they think the other person understands. A prisoner who won't tell a guard anything will thaw immediately if he's put in a cell with another man in for the same crime. And doctors who would bite off their own tongues before showing indecision to a patient will tell another doctor about how little they know and how frightened they are. I've seen it happen many times. It's how spies work.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“You always look as though you think people aren't going to like you--that's your trouble.”
― Victoria Holt, Menfreya in the Morning

“Passing on information to a friend "was no breach of promise of secrecy . . . because it was no more than telling it to oneself.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“One must pay meticulous attention to the private confessions of the wolf. - On Unsolicited Confidences”
― Lamine Pearlheart, To Life from the Shadows

“It's all someone else's secret.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“For some reason that he had never been able to understand, Mandrake was a man in whom his fellow-creatures confided. He was by no means obviously sympathetic and he seldom asked for confidences but, perhaps because of these very omissions, they came his way.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman

“I found out myself long ago that there's no one whom one dislikes so much as the person in whom one's confided too much.”
― Elizabeth Ferrars, The March Hare Murders