"Spilling a Secret What its size, will have……" — Ellen Hopkins
"Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the cat escape. A liberated feline might purr on your lap, or it might scratch your eyes out. You can’t tell until you loosen the knot. Do you chance losing a friendship, if that friend’s well-being will only be preserved by betraying sworn-to silence trust? Once the seam is ripped, can it be mended again? And if that proves impossible, will you be okay when it all falls to pieces?"
—
Ellen Hopkins
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
322 Quotes by Ellen Hopkins
Ellen Hopkins has 322 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart.…
-
What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
-
Eventually, it becomes a matter of scale. When the good outweighs the bad, you stay. When the bad is the…
-
Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.
-
Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping…
-
When the door to love opens, The window to control closes.
-
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
-
I know he did horrible things in the jungle. Things no amount of alcohol or pills could erase. War stains…
-
Happiness is a bull's-eye, awaiting arrows of pain.
-
Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty.…
-
you fly until you crash two days two nights no sleep, no food, come down off the monster YOU CRASH…
-
When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love…
See all 322 quotes by Ellen Hopkins »
More All Quotes
This quote is filed under All Quotes,
one of 128,558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
-
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
-
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
-
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
— Pietro Aretino
-
We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
-
A friend to all is a friend to none.
— Aristotle
See all 128,558 All Quotes »