“Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the ground, reveals itself one day on the surface. Sand turns traitor, and betrays the footstep that has passed over it; water gives back to the tell-tale surface the body that has been drowned. Fire itself leaves the confession, in ashes, of the substance consumed in it. Hate breaks its prison-secrecy in the thoughts, through the doorway of the eyes; and Love finds the Judas who betrays it by a kiss. Look where we will, the inevitable law of revelation is one of the laws of nature: the lasting preservation of a secret is a miracle which the world has never yet seen.”

“Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.”

“…there is nothing unforgivable and there are no secrets before an all-knowing merciful God.”

“The Universe doesn’t like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.”

“But some secrets are too delicious not to share.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”

“Speak in whispers, and you shall hear volumes about what is said.”

“Ronan’s second secret was Adam Parrish.”

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”

“True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them.”

“I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love.”

“I’d learned that some things are best kept secret.”