#secrets

It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets. ↗

— David Copperfield

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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Susan Bennett

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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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No secret can remain hidden for ever. Silently and patiently, it waits in the dark. It lets you build your life, carefully stacking the bricks one by one, and then it appears. It deals its blow and everything crumbles. That’s why it remains intact and incorruptible in time, waiting for its ultimate destiny to be revealed. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

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I wonder which is preferable--to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin--everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone--and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#secrets #love

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves. ↗

— Joe Hill

#love

Hey, Max," I whispered. "I love you, too." The smile that lit up his face was brighter than the neon lights radiating from the London Eye. But mine felt even brighter. Like my future. ↗

— Cassidy Calloway

#romance #secrets-of-a-first-daughter #love