Quotes / Keeping Secrets Sucks

"I'm a sawed off shotgun full of secrets!"

— Olive Snook, Pushing Daisies

"What's the point of being able to talk if you can't tell secrets?"

—Donkey, Shrek

Good secrets are like corpses dumped into the river: Once they surface, they draw the attention of inconvenient authorities and wheedling pests

— The Errors of London, Fallen London

"OK, before you unload your anger at me, can I just say that I think that it is incredibly unfair that everyone trusts me to keep their secrets, and then they turn around and throw me attitude for keeping someone else's secret! Look, I'm sorry that I had to take a two-second breather from hiding the fact that you are an alien from another planet to protect someone else for a change! GOD!"

—Chloe Sullivan, Smallville

Jake: I'm just so tired of lying to everybody. This morning at breakfast we're all sitting around looking at sale ads in the paper. My mom and dad wanted to go look at a new lawn mower. Tom even said he'd go along. They wanted me to go, like a real family outing. But I made up a story about having to help Cassie's dad here at the farm.

Cassie: It wasn't exactly a lie.

Jake: It wasn't exactly the truth, either. My mom doesn't understand why I never have time for them anymore. At least if we do this, if we get them out, that part will be over. Lying. Sneaking around. Hurting their feelings.

—Animorphs #49: The Diversion

Dolores: Do you want to know what the biggest burden about my gift is, Mirabel?
Mirabel: Um... sure?
Dolores: It isn't the annoying sounds you mention. It isn't the fact that everything I hear is at an amplified volume. It isn't even the constant chatter in my ears. No, Mirabel, the biggest burden of my gift is that ultimately, I must choose what to share and what to keep a secret

—The Mouse in the Walls, "Chapter 5: One Cup of Soothing Tea"

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