“Laila: Tell your secrets to the wind but don't blame it for telling the trees.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
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novelist 1965Related quotes

“The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep?”
"Night Winds".
Verses (1915)

“5184. To him, that you tell your Secret, you resign your Liberty.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : To whom thy secret thou dost tell, to him thy freedom thou dost sell.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“I'm not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me!”

“Don't tell me! Don't tell me!”
Reaction to news of father being shot quoted in Betty Shabazz, Surviving Malcolm X: A Journey of Strength from Wife to Widow to Heroine (2003) by Russell J. Rickford, p. 349
1960s