#secret

To me it seemed that the teaching of God's Word was unmistakably clear: 'Owe no man anything.' To borrow money implied to my mind a contradiction of Scripture--a confession that God had withheld some good thing, and determination to get for ourselves what He had not given. ↗

— Hudson Taylor

#money

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering. ↗

— Christa Wolf

#writing #respect

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. ↗

— George Orwell

#secret

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

— Sara Gruen

#truth #secret

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you? ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#secret #sad

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out. ↗

— Ally Carter

#secret

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#friends #secrets #secret

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end. ↗

— Pseudonymous Bosch

#secret

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#night #sleep #secret

I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#seduction #secret