#secrets

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning. ↗

— Andrei Codrescu

#life

Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable... ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#secret

All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#secret

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#scripture

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell. ↗

— Kim Edwards

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The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#abuse

If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— China Miéville

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

— Alice Munro

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