#secret

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#self #transformation

Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me. ↗

— Toba Beta

#cheapen #pride #secret #arrogance

To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #dignity #feelings #hide #literature

...the secret to writing is to get your own pain - shout it out till it hurts your throat - weep it into your pillow - then write it down ... ↗

— John Geddes

#weeping #writing-from-the-heart #writing-process #writing-secrets #writing-process

Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#jo #law-of-contraries #secret #sisters #louisa-may-alcott

Why was he here? Why was he always, always, always around? Didn’t he have a life? Didn’t he have anything better to do? ↗

— Diana Peterfreund

#love #poe #secret-society-girl #life

The secret must stay and- according to scientists- the love will live. The heart is quite comfortable with secrets. After all, its home is a dark wet place tucked in among all the other organs who aren't talking either. ↗

— Toby Barlow

#secrets #love

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#privacy #secret #wisdom #faith

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#secrets #nature

Do I attribute my success to hard work, or sunscreen? If you want the truth, maybe you should ask my new albino secretary. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#ask #hard-work #secretary #success #sunscreen