#secrets

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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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

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There are many secrets; don’t try to resolve them all. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Charles Foster Bass

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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

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right? ↗

— Halle Berry

#after #everybody #knows #nobody #only

The story of my family. . .changes with the teller. ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#families #narrators #perspective #religion #secrets

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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