| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bb6d720 | The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it! | guilty-conscience vulnerability | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| d63f455 | I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth.... | secret anxiety-disorders cowardly emotional-wounds monster-under-the-bed sinful-nature why-we-need-jesus wounded-souls guilty-conscience monsters-of-men wounds-to-the-heart haunting haunted self-hate hypocrisy burden ptsd | Joseph Conrad |