#secrets

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#inquisition #like #secrets #slavery #those

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#burn #darkest #eyes #feel #i

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. ↗

— Edmund Leach

#being #family #far #good #narrow

I now understood that real secrets were lonely. They planted themselves inside of you and expanded, until you felt like that was all you were-a lonely little secret, isolated in your experiences. ↗

— Yvonne Woon

#secrets #beauty

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#moths #secrets #streetlight #beauty

The thankful heart and a praying mind are the revealer of the secrets of beauty. ↗

— Toba Beta

#revealer #secrets-of-beauty #thankful-heart #beauty

Be careful who you tell your secrets to because when situations change... sometimes, so do people. ↗

— Gwen Ro

#change #change-of-heart #change-your-mind #changes #secret

No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#secrets #death

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#psychotherapist #secrets #self-awareness #visions #dreams

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