Cross my heart and hope to die…

Do you have a way of getting rid of secrets without revealing the source?

84 responses

1. Winnona33 03.25.2009

   A friend of mine once told me a secret that was….heavy.  I didn’t know what to do….should I tell my parents so that they could help her, or should I stay true to my word?
   I ended up sneaking into the teacher’s bathroom and writing the secret on one of the stalls.
   That didn’t get rid of the secret—it still haunts me.  My friend and her family moved away last year.  I don’t know if anyone ever read the message and did anything about it.
   All I know is that the secret will be a scar on my heart forever.

2. AveryJ 03.26.2009

   I try not to tell secrets if someone has entrusted me with them. I mean, they wouldn’t be secrets if I told somehow, would they?

3. TrigistheDevilsInstrument 03.26.2009

   I don’t know. Some people just have to tell someone. (Note: these people shouldn’t be given secrets in the first place). So if you have to get secrets off your chest, maybe putting them somewhere anonymously and somehow untraceable will keep your tongue from flappin.

4. FlyBy 03.26.2009

   I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you. Duh.

5. LeeLo 03.26.2009

   I am probably one of those people, Trig. And this explains a lot about Amanda—she was just looking for trouble. And as my gran likes to say, if you look for trouble, it comes knockin’ on your door.  I personally run from it. I just tell people—I don’t want to know.  If you tell me something, it better be something you don’t care if everyone knows because I make no promises, I take no prisoners where secret are concerned.  To me, they are just a breeding ground for hurt feelings, jealousies, back stabbing, and apparently reasons to sneak around, leaving weird ripped pages that make no sense and possible having to disappear and freak all your friends out!  No thanks, secrets are not for me, I like everything out in the open, the bright clear light of day and if you tell me something, that is exactly where I am going to drag it.  I don’t want to burden of anybody’s private business—if you want to keep it private, then DON’T SHARE!

6. Anonymous94 03.26.2009

   This explains a weird exchange I had with her, not that with Amanda there is any other kind.  I was coming home from, well, my after school job which shall remain ANONYMOUS, obviously since that is a priority with me, and there was Amanda.  I was walking and she came sort of bursting out of nowhere, pulling leaves out of her hair and off of the long velvet cape-thing that she was wearing.  Her high boots were all muddy and she had definitely been out in the woods somewhere, and she was out of breath, holding a jewel covered sketch book.  “Oh, you startled me” she says, but not at all mad, just very jolly actually.  “But now all is right with the world and I am relieved of a burden I was never meant to carry”. . . . and she skips off.  I remember every word because it was so odd and she was literally skipping like we were back in 3rd grade, except I cannot really even picture her in 3rd grade. What do you bet she had just unloaded one of these secrets?

7. peanut_butter 03.31.2009

   Sometimes secretw need to be told, though.  And at least Amanda was responsible about unloading her secrets, you know?  I mean, if she couldn’t live with them and didn’t reveal specifics in her secrets, what she did was fine.  I know that I’ve had secrets that I couldn’t keep to myself.  Too heavy.

8. theresaax2 03.31.2009

   This works, unless its a very important or dangerous secret. The finder of the paper would go insane not knowing the source, knowing someone could be hurt. I think maybe writing in a journal and locking it would work, or something like that.

9. Odd 03.31.2009

   Dangerous is he first word that comes to mind.

   According to the Secrets Karma is what it says, but that could vary. It could be the most uplifting simplest little secrets in the world, but it could still destroy someone. But would that mean it gets stashed in the roots of a tree at midnight? Or is it snuck between the hoop and the backboard in the park’s basketball court? I can only think of the word dangerous when this comes along.

10. babystarlit 03.31.2009

    Nope i take my secrets to the grave with me unless its something like im going to kill myself or something like that in which case it wise to tell somebody about it.
    i wish i didnt always keep secrets so well though .  my cousin had a foster kid in her house, she told me she was going to run away and begged me not to tell them. she wanted to get back to help her mother who had to take care of 10 kids all who had some type of heart disease. i felt bad for her and didnt say anything, but when i found out she acutally ran away though i advised her not to ... i felt so horrible i didnt know what to do with myself.

11. Arabella 03.31.2009

    I don’t tell other people’s secrets if they’ve asked me not to. Amanda maybe had a good idea in writing stuff down. It would help, I think, if it was a really big secret.

12. kayleigh 03.31.2009

    I think a good way to get secrets off your mind would be to use a truth box on a website like myspace or send anonymous messages that way if people need to know or you just want to tell someone you can and not be worried about them wondering why you did it or why your even talking to them.

13. Sabrina 03.31.2009

    Amanda and I never really got along.  Obviously.  I only hang out with people that are worth hanging out with.  But none the less, had she told me anything I would have kept shut about it.  I have had rumors spread about me that came out of one secret that I told a friend and I wouldn’t want that to happen to someone else.  Even some freak like Amanda.  Wherever she is, I want to find her, to be part of this because who knows, maybe she is just like me in some way.  Or I can change her. We’ll see once we find her, and we will find her, because I never lose.
    Sabster Queen.

14. _Bex_ 03.31.2009

    If someone asks me not to tell anyone something, I don’t. Period. One too many times I’ve told someone I trusted something important and asked them not to tell, but they did anyway. It hurts, and I refuse to do that to anyone else. Even if I don’t know them. I found one of Amanda’s secrets once, in the back cover of a copy of “Vampire Academy” in the big bookstore on the corner. I’d tell you what it said…but like I just mentioned, spilling secrets just isn’t what I do.

15. dem_94 03.31.2009

    Like Sabrina, I’ve also had rumors started about me by a secret I’d told a ‘friend’. It really hurts, especially when the story has been 50 times, and the facts are lost in a bunch of lies. I keep people’s secrets privite. I would never hurt a friend the same way I was hurt.

    Maybe Amanda wrote down where she was going, and left the note somewhere? It seems like something she would do.

16. urban_hippie 03.31.2009

    I write it down on construction paper. After, I fold it into a butterfly and I leave it on the bus. I feel like it has been set free after that. I mention no names and I let if fly.

17. hahlooo 04.01.2009

    Some secrets weigh so heavy on your heart that you can’t hold them without your heart splintering under the weight.  Leaving a secret like that, anonymously, where it can’t hurt anyone is cathartic.  I think the secrets Amanda leaves are secrets about herself, not about others.  Those are the secrets that keep you awake at night, the secrets that thud under the floor boards, the secrets that poison your dreams.

18. aGirlLikeMe 04.01.2009

    I think Amanda’s attachment to keys is quite cool. It gives you a feeling of self-worth, like those keys belong to something that someone has been looking for for years. I think this clue (and I do think it is a clue) will lead to something big.

    I don’t have many secrets but if I did, I guess I would grin and bear it. I would keep it inside for the sake of those the secret involves.

19. Kirihara 04.01.2009

    Too bad she couldn’t just talk to someone. Did any of you ever look for her journals after she hid them? If you knew where they were, I mean?

20. Winnona33 04.01.2009

    I am going to try making a construction paper butterfly for my next secret.  Thanks, urban_hippie!

21. Winnona33 04.01.2009

    Me too on the false rumor front.  Wish I could say it has made me stop spilling secrets….

22. Snowcrystal86 04.02.2009

    hahlooo, I love your idea about the difference between secrets that are your own vs. the ones other people tell you. Part of me agrees with you, that the secrets Amanda unloaded were totally her own. because it didn’t seem like she ever stuck around long enough for other people to trust her with their deepest secrets.

    On the other hand, another part of me knows that Amanda could always see things other people couldn’t. So maybe she felt so guilty about knowing other people’s secrets without having gained their trust enough for them to actually TELL her that she had to get them out of her head somehow.

23. dramaqueen 04.02.2009

    first i used to tell my secrets to my sister obviously i had to get them out some way or i would burst or smthn…!or atleast i thought i would…then once i realizedno one is to be trusted in any circumstanes no matter what.from dat day my i never let them out (n thankfully i didnt burst)!.i carry them wherever i go…............

24. Paperdoll 04.02.2009

    I’m not sure, but maybe she was lonely…?

25. Kewpie83 04.03.2009

    Secrets can really get at you, unless you’re the type that thrives when you’re keeping a secret, which Amanda strikes me as.  I can see how Amanda’s method might work. She definitely has a lot of secrets to keep…

26. Shadoughes. 04.03.2009

    Tell your best friend and that’s it. If there really your best friend they won’t tell and then you can both have each other to know the secret.

27. iCALLitVINTAG 04.04.2009

    Only my 10 year bestfriend knows all my secrets
    all though there is one secret i kept from her…
    thats the only one i kept from the whole world
    some secrets are just meant to never be told

28. Ashley 04.07.2009

    I don’t like to tell anyone anything secret. All you need in one good rumor to get in the in-crowd, who cares about what or who. Even the most trustworthy people get desperate for attention, ‘specially from the popular girls who can make you feel great about yourself and the like dogpoop the next day.

29. kimberly 04.09.2009

    I think that if you write about a secret, and put it somewhere, it’s okay as long as you don’t use their real names, or if you make it kind of hard to understand…I find it good to go into the middle of the forest (where there are no creepy hermits living) and yell it out. Sure some deer, or a bear might hear, but what can they say?

30. FlyingAway 04.10.2009

    I think it comes down to if you keep your promises. When you get told a secret, you promise that you won’t tell someone else. Some people will tell you that it’s okay to tell another person, but then it’s not really a secret, right? So if you’ve promised not to tell, then you’re not allowed to say or write or do ANYTHING that might let someone else know what it’s about.

    Unless the secret it something serious like a person hurting themself or something. Then it’s ALWAYS alright to tell, but only trusted people that will help (parents, teachers, ect).

31. courtz96 04.18.2009

    no. i think it is a great idea what amanda does though

32. puellapacis 04.19.2009

    everything is circumstantial.

33. stef_stone 05.12.2009

    The last time I was with Amanda, at the vintage clothing shop, I saw her sneaking into the dressing rooms and pinning a piece of paper to the wall. Then, she looked around quickly, and ran back into the regular store area. I don’t think she knows that I saw her, but she was really nervous the rest of the trip. All I saw of the note was the word “bea”. I wonder what that means..anyone have any ideas?

34. globalgirl 05.15.2009

    Well. It could be ANYTHING from Beatrice, who could be her kidnapper, ex bestie, current secret best friend, twin sister etc… To someone calling her beautiful, or telling her to meat her at the beach, or maybe it was code?
    it’s so confusing.

35. stef_stone 05.15.2009

    could it be bea rossiter?

36. DarkCharlotte 06.18.2009

    I don’t have many secrets, but as I lived in England most of my life, and most of my friends are over there I can tell secrets about people from here to my friends in England and then I can tell my friends over here secrets about my friends in England. No one knows each other so it can’t hurt right?? But obviously if it is a huge secret, i won’t tell. Also, I personally don’t have very many secrets. I’m a pretty trusting person once I make friends with someone. It’s just the making friends part that I have problems with. Also I keep a journal too. I write in it as much as I can and if there is something on my mind that I can’t stop thinking about I just write it down in there. A teacher I once had back at home told me that he wished his dad had a journal to give to him about things that just even went on in his everyday life so he knew that he had gone through the same things and was actually a teenager too. I thought that was a cool idea, but I might have to rip a few pages out if I every give it to my kid. I don’t know what I would do if someone found that journal today though…

37. Natasha 08.01.2009

    Amanda had a method. She had a way of getting rid of her secrets in a way where nobody knew whose secrets they were. It was effective, but left us with many clues. Now, we all realize that every scrap of paper could have been Amanda’s, hidden in a secret message, though only a few really are. The hard part is figuring out what is Amanda’s, and what, unfortunately, isn’t.

38. Lizziex25 08.17.2009

    I do kind of what Amanda does. I write it down and carry it loosely with me (in my binder, bag, ect.) or drop a few hints so my friends are hounding me. So I know if someone finds the note or figures it out I really didn’t tell anyone but people know.

39. Yori 08.29.2009

    Amanda used a method which is really interesting to me since I used to that something similar. I wrote on a piece of paper with my left hand (I’m right handed) then I would fold it so many times it was so crumpled it was hard to read and then I would tore it up and throw it in the garbage can.

40. Mexly 09.11.2009

    This idea is very theariputic to somehow let out a secert without actually ‘letting out’ a secret. I think i may need to use this since i seem to accumilate lots of secrets about myself and others, maybe i can finally let some go. It hurts to keep it in and i feel it’s only getting harder and harder.

    -Mexly R.

41. GemmaStone 09.18.2009

    PostSecret. Some of these even get published in their books, but they won’t publish it if it has any form of ID. No names, no addresses. Send in a postcard that you make yourself with your secret on it, and then someone WILL read your secret…anonymously and miles upon miles away where no one’s ever heard of you.

42. singer_girl93 09.26.2009

    Write them into a song or story that you ask someone to read or listen too. It doesn’t always work, but you can feel better, ‘cause not only are you getting it off your chest, but you’re exoressing yourself too. I always get nervous when entrusted with a secret. I just have to trust me to make the right choices for it. =]

43. Sparrrow 10.01.2009

    There is no proper way to write out a secret without revealing the source. It is a secret because that is what it should remain. A secret.

44. amandasbffkay 10.01.2009

    same thing amanda does, cept id stuff it where no one can find it, that way know one knows about it

45. Nerd 10.10.2009

    wen i have a secret i tend to confide in people i dont no hardly at all. But ina way so they dont really understand wat im ona bout cus i wont tell them eveything. its just better to get sum stuff off your chest to sumone that couldnt care less.

46. soccachik666 10.18.2009

    I write really horrible secrets on a piece of paper and then i burn it because i cant keep scary secrets that some people tell me. Maybe thats why amanda writes secrets like that Because they’re scary, horrible, or very hard to keep.

47. risabel44 10.21.2009

    I think writing a secret on a piece of paper and not destroying it is wrong. if she didnt want anyone to read it she would have destroyed it. i think she wants the secrets to be read.

48. just2kool 10.26.2009

    my only way to reveal a secret that I cannot tell anyone who the person was is to write it down. My sisters and our freinds do that too. We have been doing this since the sixth grade. It really helped because wwe all shared the same journal and share it with each other.IT REALLY WORKS!

49. dedee0703 11.15.2009

    I have a little ritual. My friends tell me all there secrets and it is a bit of a heavy burden and i kind of feel better if i write it down and get rid of it so on rainy nights. At midnight I go to our fire in the living room which stays on all night. I write down all the secrets I know and throw them into the fire.

    Wierd, I know but it definitley makes me feel better.

50. iWrite 11.18.2009

    I never thought Amanda was all that special; she struck me as the kind of person that brings trouble, which is something I tend to avoid. Besides that, Hal Bennett (my object of affection for quite some time) was obviously into her, which didn’t much help my strong dislike for Amanda the Great.
    One day when I was eating my lunch in the library (since there’s nowhere to hide from the I-Girls in the cafeteria), she waltzed through the door in a faded tank top and scuffed combat boots. She plopped down at the round mahogany table closest to the biography section, and I watched her flip through a black notebook decorated by a collage of words written in metallic marker. This was obviously home-made, and obviously some type of journal or diary. My interest was officially sparked. Amanda dropped her pen, and as she bent down to pick it up, I noticed that she hesitated for about a nano-second at the bottom shelf. Then she retrieved her pen, stood up straight, picked up her load of junk and shimmied back out of the library door.
    When I was sure the coast was clear, I made my way over to that shelf (for some indistinct reason), and looked at the books Amanda had just briefly observed. I saw biographies on Anne Frank, Marie Antoinette, Oprah Winfrey. I kept searching for anything of interest, and stopped on a book about Martin Luther King (being African-American, I felt racially obliged). I opened the stiff cover, and a purple slip of paper fell to my (uncommonly large) feet.
    “Enjoy yourself,” it said. “It’s later than you think. -Chinese Proverb”

51. FindingMe<3 11.28.2009

    I go to the beach and write my secrets in the sand, close to the edge of the water, and watch as the water creeps up and washes it away. [: it works when you REALLY REALLY need to get something off your chest.

52. Booklover**** 12.18.2009

    I think we can all agree that the way Callie dealed with keeping a secret didn’t work out too great…. Callie should have confronted Heidi as soon as it happened and told her that she won’t tell her secret but that she also wouldn’t cover for her…..I whisper the secret 7

53. Nicolla 12.21.2009

    I got a good one: write the secret, chop the paper in half, feed one piece to your dog and burn your dogs poo, and chuck the other piece into the fire and bury the soot and ashes

54. chmivita1234 12.26.2009

    well…...i don’t do this but it’s and idea….. you can write it on a piece of paper and then you can rip it or shred it and know that you revealed it but no one found the secret out!!!!

55. blondegirl101 12.28.2009

    the key that is right under th 2 looke a lot like the key from one of the clues.

56. Cheerleader 12.29.2009

    I normally tell my best friend Jake, he more like a brother. and we help each other get through stuff. And i can trust him with everything.

57. fun-lovingisi 12.29.2009

    Any ideas on trust? It’s so hard to trust people for me because every time I tell someone it somehow gets around. I HATE it. i feel like i cant trust any of even my closest friends because like from the persons point of view who needs to let a secret out someone told them, they will most likely tell someone else. i really like this posting secrets thing but what if you need advice? then what?

58. Strawbezz 01.01.2010

    Secrets are a burden.
    This is why I hate truth or dare. You tell someone a secret because you want to, not because you have to. Otherwise, say good-bye to the trust you have in them. Callie knew it was time to tell her secret regarding Bea because she wanted it to get off her chest and needed that trust from Nia and Hal.
    Honestly, I tell a secret if it’s going to help someone. I’ll tell a lie if it’s going to protect someone. But I wish it was that easy.

    Write the secret on a piece of paper, tie it to a balloon, go to the highest point in your town, and release the balloon. Don’t leave your name.

59. fun-lovingisi 01.02.2010

    maybe we could find a way to release secrets without killing birds
    write it on a leaf and release it in a stream to float away?

60. ishantee 01.08.2010

    (to the tune of “obsseded” by mariah carey) why she so obsseded with keys thats what i wanna know liein that she collectin keys she delosional she denlosinal boy she losin ha mind dis confusin yo dis confusin yo why im wastin ma time (just kidding)

61. Rushwater 01.09.2010

    Nice. I think it’s kinda smart, the way she hid them, although a bit…odd. But hey, it’s Amanda here. Lol.

62. blondegurl 01.12.2010

    the key thats closest to the 2 looks exactaly like the key from the secret room.

63. Sabastian 01.16.2010

    Well my friends and I have a band. Whenever I had secrets to tell or secrets that I couldn’t keep, I penned them into lyrics. It’s not exactly the smartest thing to do, but I liked to think that I meshed them in pretty well. Well at least I used to think that.

    Here’s a secret I’m revealing to you guys—- I had/have a crush on Amanda.

    And Amanda’s smart. There was a time when she overheard us practicing. My friend was singing our song titled, “Black Whiteout,” which basically under all the metaphors is about how I feel about her. The next day, when I was in the library, she approached me and commented on my music. I play the keyboard so I thought she was referring to that. Then she told me that she wasn’t looking for a relationship. Her words really caught me off guard; I had always thought that my lyrics hid the truth pretty well.

    Obviously, after that incident I stopped. Now I just say them aloud when showering.

64. bookworm 01.16.2010

    I either write it on paper and shred it with a paper shreder or, I write it in code.
    That way, you could get it off your chest and no one will know.
    I never tell secrets someone’s told me, unless it’s a serious one, like say your friend made you swear not to tell any one that she has an eating disorder, of course you would tell some one.

65. kitkat1112 01.17.2010

    i think that the way she did that was pretty cool and i wish i could read one of her coded secrets just to see if i could figure it out

66. Vera 02.03.2010

    This reminds me of this quote,

    The best way to keep a secret is without help

67. trumpetgirl 02.18.2010

    I like the idea. It is a good way of getting that thing off of your chest. There is of course always the “what if someone found it and knew about the situation” thing, but still, its better than telling someone and risk hurting people, or keeping it inside of you and letting it drive you crazy.

68. trumpetgirl 02.18.2010

    I actually did that once. I wrote what I was feeling down on a sheet of paper, and taped it to the bottom of my desk. Only problem was people found it when I was in Florida, but in the end it turned out alright.

69. JesaminMolly 02.19.2010

    Thats kinda a beautiful and very insane thing to do. But I think it not really *telling* , it’s more unloading your heart onto a piece of paper THEN STICKING IT WHERE NO-ONE WILL FIND IT !! So obvi these *secrets* need to be found because they are deffo more clues. Also how can they be secrets if you go and tell someone you’ve put it somewhere? Strange. J x

70. trumpetgirl 02.19.2010

    Yes I agree on the last sentence. And the secrets do need to be found.

71. lindzkin 02.23.2010

    She has keys to the whole town probably. So this whole key journal raises more questions than answers maybe the keys are the key to the answer.

72. sgst1993 02.25.2010

    It’s interesting. And a very good way of keeping your secret while getting it off your chest. I should try this sometime.

73. Coupe 03.08.2010

    whisper secrets into your dog’s soft, floppy ear. Dog’s can’t tell anyone and they’ll still love you even if it’s the most horrible thing. =]

74. Hinaru 03.14.2010

    Possibly the torn up journl pages or the on on the picture, might be decoded by the color, directions the key points to, or where the key is drawn on the page, it may mbe hard to be decoded because it’s just three keys…

75. Hinaru 04.01.2010

    What I meant to say on my first comment was that I think that maybe the keys is the point to this clue…

76. awesomesauce 04.22.2010

    If something bothers me, I usually draw the secret or problem into a picture. It really helps get it off your chest without screaming it to the world and in the end you have a new picture to hang on the wall. :p

77. izzap2 04.30.2010

    I told her a secret once. (No, i’m not going to tell you what it is!!) A couple of days ago, I found a piece of paper with something that sounded like my secret on it down in the local cemetary. do you think she put it there?

78. Hinaru 04.30.2010

    >awesomesauce> Well, thats true, it does help some how, but the way Amanda uses that, maybe its not about something that bothers her, maybe it had something to do with why she left?

    >izzap2> I don’t think so, its been so long since shes gone. How exactly do you know if its her? She goes by many names, maybe the person you told to did put the secret in that local cemetary, but maybe its not the actual Amanda?

79. Chandler 06.05.2010

    I like this idea. Of leaving a secret will no-one will find it. I right secrets down in my journal, which, funnily enough, Amanda gave to me. It has a secret pocket in the back, but i’ve never put anything in it, or even opened it…do you think she might have put something in there?

80. Schyler 06.15.2010

    Me and my friends tell each other secrets in a letter-to-number code.then we just stash it somewhere where no one but the person who is supposed to see it will find it.And if someone does then they can’t read it because of the code.Almost everyone in town knows that we do this so they just leave our papers alone if they find one.So far it has worked really well.And if our parents ever decide that we can’t hang out anymore,then we are set for life.Our parents don’t know about our code so they can’t read it either.And we both have fake accounts on Facebook too so either way,we could still talk to each other.

81. Basil_H. 06.26.2010

    She’s creative and full of thoughts, but she doesn’t know who to tell. So she tells everyone and no one, because she can’t keep them to herself. It’s a way of venting. I’m guessing that she hopes one day they’ll be someone she can tell everything to, someone she can trust completely. I’ve been there.

82. ace4799 07.09.2010

    I talk to my dog, or scream it out when no one’s around, or even sing it, if no one’s there.

83. Basil_H. 07.12.2010

    Have to do something.

84. ChicGeek 07.13.2010

    speaking of hearts and keys…

    y’kno how she mentioned the yellow brick road? the tinman needed a heart? watif u r unlockin a heart…. it might be a lock to a door… what’s the heart of a house?

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