#secret

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand. ↗

— Nancy Werlin

#friendship #secrets #understanding #friendship

In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#books #pages #secret #world #experience

People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge. ↗

— J. Robert Lennon

#experience

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . . ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#companionship #family #growing-up #secrets #sisters

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#death

I open my heart to her and lay it on the table. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#family-secrets #mothers-and-daughers #religion #faith

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#life #remember #secret #life

I've never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn't know that there might be another way to live, and I didn't worry about it either. But I remember the day I began to notice and think about what was around me. I had just turned five and felt as though I had crossed a big threshold. I woke up before dawn with something like a tickle in my brain. That bit of irritation made me alert to everything I saw and experienced that day. ↗

— Lisa Lee

#family

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#photography #secrecy #secrets #art

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. ↗

— Robin Sloan

#secrets #friendship