#secrets

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. ↗

— George Orwell

#secret

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not. ↗

— Sara Gruen

#truth #secret

Secrets. Funny how, when you're about to be given something precious, something you've wanted for a long time, you suddenly feel nervous over taking it. Everyone wants more than anything to be allowed into someone else's most secret self. Everyone wants to allow someone into their most secret self. Everyone feels so alone inside that their deepest wish is for someone to know their secret being, because then they are alone no longer. Don't we all long for this? Yet when it's offered it's frightening, because you might not live up to the desires of the one who bestows the gift. And frightening because you know that accepting such a gift means you'll want-perhaps be expected- to offer a similar gift in return. Which means giving your *self* away. And what's more frightening than that? ↗

— Aidan Chambers

#giving #secrets #self #sharing-secrets #funny

Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious. ↗

— Dario Argento

#away #back #changing #come #guilty

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#most #nation #nuclear #protected #secrets

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#everybody #human #human nature #i #just

CODE: Cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life. Tanakh (JPS, Genesis 3:17) DECODED: Blessed is He that discerneth secrets. Talmud (Berakoth 58a) ↗

— H.W. Charles

#money #moneymaking #secrets #wealth #wealth-accumulation

I've made six films since I made Secrets and Lies but I still live in London and I'd love to do theater. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#i #lies #live #london #love

And so the game went on in this manner, the throng of children playing keep-away from a bowling ball tossed back and forth across the valley by two plump ogres. The air filled with shrieks and cheers and shouts of laughter as daring players thrilled at the sport. That is, all but the few poor souls knocked dizzy by a bowling ball and captured. No laughter rose from behind bars because those in the birdcage knew what was in store for them - soon to be lunch for a couple of hungry ogres. Now you might be thinking, ‘Wasn’t Gavin swallowed by a wolf earlier? And didn’t he call it fun? And didn’t he tell that raven-haired girl that being swallowed by a bear doesn’t hurt?’ All true, all true. But, here’s a secret you might not know. Ogres chew their food. Luckily, it’s only the first bite that stings. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #games #gavin #ogres #playing

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#keep #mean #none #secrets #them