No one keeps a secret so well as a child

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

— Victor Hugo

“It is almost impossible for a parent to hold a secret from a child. Children, without the skills of language, spend years developing instead…

— Cynthia Rylant

A man who keeps a secret is wise but not nearly as wise as a man who has no secrets to tell.

— Nishan Panwar

“Silence keeps a secret. I understand.’ I”

— Robin Hobb

I've reread 'The Secret Garden' every year as an adult. I have a battered copy on my bookshelf - it's really quite a mess!…

— Ellen Potter

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Sometimes just the act of sharing a painful secret can relieve some of the pain.

— Anonymous

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past…

— Tom Waits

“To let one into your mind was to give him or her all your secrets.”

— John Patrick Kennedy

I wonder if it's ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or if the best we can do is just stumble…

— Lauren Oliver

The value of secrets is ever fluctuating although ladies who have been in society for a long time learn that a secret kept can…

— Anna Godbersen

Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets.

— Candace Bushnell

“It hardly needs to be said: sooner or later secrets have a way of making themselves known.”

— Kate Morton

Every person has at least one secret that will break your heart.

— AnA

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

— Alice Hoffman