#secret

For the next couple of weeks she held Peter like a secret in her heart, lying right under her necklace. I could see him written on her face, and Tik Tok, too, seemed to catch shadows of him, because he'd stop to stare at her, puzzled, as if he'd just seen the boy flit across her eyes-seen the ghost of the kiss lingering for a second on the skin of her neck before disappearing. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#love #peter-pan #secret #tiger-lily #love

But the aspect of secrets is they leak out. If they didn't leak, they wouldn't be interesting. ↗

— CLAMP

#secrets #humor

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. ↗

— Dan Millman

#cells #ever #everything #imprinted #know

Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes. ↗

— Janet Taylor Lisle

#cat #invisible #magic #quiet #secret

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#best #earth #eat #grow #i

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#secret

It didn't matter that the story had begun, because kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones that you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don't decieve with thrills and trick endings. They don't surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover's skin. You know how the end, yet you listen as though you don't. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won't. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, and who doesn't. And yet you want to know again. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#great-story #secrets #stories #story #storytelling

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip through the hinges where you've hung it so careful. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#the-secret-life-of-bees #love

I can understand where he's coming from... I too was once secretly in love with you, and I could do nothing but watch from afar. Being close to you while pretending that we're nothing more than friends. The first time I touched you with sexual intention, it was like an electrical current flowing through my fingertips and it paralyzed me. I wanted to make your senses go numb with pleasure. Not only physical pleasure, but desire too, deep inside. ↗

— NEKOTA Yonezou

#friends-to-lovers #gay #pleasure #romance #secret-love

Stalin is dead! Stalin is dead! No school today!” we yelled. “Stalin is dead! No school today...” was a chant to linger in my ears for years to come. ↗

— Teodor Flonta

#life #love #secret-police #transylvania #vampires