#secret

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. ↗

— China Miéville

#secrets #stories #gossip

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. ↗

— Alice Munro

#secrets #shame #shame

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

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

— Jodi Picoult

#privacy #secret #wisdom #faith

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

— Jarod Kintz

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

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ↗

— Mark Twain

#everything #heaven #human #itself #joy

The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it. ↗

— Lisa Unger

#secrets #trust #truth #beauty