“People are secretive when they have secrets.”

“You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.”

“I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things.”

“It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.”

“Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.”

“You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.”

“I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.”