#secrets

There are so many movies like this, where you thought you were smarter than the screen but the director was smarter than you, of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, of course it's the truth and you in your seat have failed to notice in the dark. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#movies #relationships #reveal #secrets #dreams

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand. ↗

— Nancy Werlin

#friendship #secrets #understanding #friendship

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#secrets #thrills #faith

Hope is the light you follow; faith is believing there is actually a light--they are the refusal to give up when you have no reason to go on. --Snake to Ara (Mark of Betrayal, Book 4 dark Secrets) ↗

— A.M. Hudson

#dark-secrets #mark-of-betrayal #faith

I open my heart to her and lay it on the table. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#family-secrets #mothers-and-daughers #religion #faith

She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#freedom

Secrets are like plants. They can stay buried deep in the earth for a long time, but eventually they'll send up shoots and give themselves away. They have to. It's their nature. Just a tiny green stem at first. Which slowly, insidiously grows taller, stronger, unfolding itself, until there it is. A big fat secret, right in front of your face; a fully bloomed flower perfumed with the scent of deception. ↗

— Judy Reene Singer

#life

There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves. ↗

— Frank Warren

#secrets #spiritualism #life

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story. ↗

— Kate Morton

#secrets #truths #life

Life is like a roller-coaster with thrills, chills, and a sigh of relief. ↗

— Susan Bennett

#life-journey #secrets #thrilling-life #life