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73a0fc5 Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame. enthusiasm excitement hidden Patrick Süskind
db6832d Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts. lies truth conspiracies hidden secrets sharing-secrets Holly Black
52501b6 The whole underneath of Paris was an ant nest, Metro tunnels, sewer shafts, catacombs, mines, cemeteries. She'd been down in the city of bones where skulls and femurs rose in yellowing walls. Right down there, win the square before them. through a dinky little entrance, were the Roman ruins like honeycomb. The trains went under the river. There were tunnels people had forgotten about. It was a wonder Paris stood up at all. The bit you saw was only half of it. Her skin burned, thinking of it. The Hunchback knew. Up here in the tower of Notre Dame he saw how it was. Now and then, with the bells rattling his bones, he saw it like God saw it -- inside, outside, above and under -- just for a moment. The rest of the time he went back to hurting and waiting like Scully out there crying in the wind. hunchback-of-notre-dame tour view perspective hidden paris Tim Winton
5960253 From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don't look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity. explanations-in-charity sign-of-maturity scandal sins charity maturity hidden Flannery O'Connor
d21692f They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. earth worship cult great-old-ones r-lyeh sea hidden secrets H.P. Lovecraft
feb8acf How much did a Dragon hide, when he walked the streets of the city? hidden Michelle Sagara
75d3870 The gods were on the point of giving up when Brahma said, 'I know where we will hide man's divinity, we will hide it inside him. he will search the whole world but never look inside and find what is already within. hidden Kate Atkinson