#secret

Be careful who you tell your secrets to because when situations change... sometimes, so do people. ↗

— Gwen Ro

#change #change-of-heart #change-your-mind #changes #secret

Desperate people are dangerous people. ↗

— Bob Ritter

#assessments #dangerousness #presidents #psychological-profile #secret-service

Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#love #riddle #death

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income. It is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories, and at the approach of an enemy it closes its ranks. A family with the wrong members in control - that, perhaps is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. ↗

— George Orwell

#conspiracy #control #defence #england #family

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life. ↗

— William Law

#happy #happy life #holy #learned #life

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. ↗

— Edmund Leach

#being #family #far #good #narrow

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. ↗

— William Proxmire

#check #cloak #dangerous #doubly #especially

This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon years of teaching and sharing magic and worse. Writing it down in fancy books that get all dusty with age has lessened it, removed its power bit by bit. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#magic #secrets #age

In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets. ↗

— Evan Angler

#secrets #technology #age

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#night-world #secret-vampire #beauty