#secrets

And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#analysis #character #darkness #insight #intuition

What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the negative spaces of someone’s self-image, their vanity and insecurities and most childish wishes, as we can infer from warped starlight the presence of a far vaster mass of dark matter. ↗

— Tim Kreider

#personality #secrets #family

Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes. ↗

— Mother Maribel

#believe #brought #circumstances #comes #did

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#afraid #away #feel #given #i

Celebrity and secrets don't go together. The bastards will get you in the end. ↗

— George Michael

#celebrity #end #get #go #in the end

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#america #best #commitment #environment #freedom

When you do a reality show and host shows, it's hard to have secrets. ↗

— Giuliana Rancic

#host #reality #reality show #secrets #show

Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living. ↗

— George Lincoln Rockwell

#being prepared #die #great #living #prepared

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ↗

— Gerald Priestland

#belong #classes #guilty #gutter #journalists

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. ↗