secret

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20b26be	And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.	secret inspiration the-little-prince importance	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
748f840	Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.	secret heart love hidden-treasure william-goldman the-princess-bride walls garden	William Goldman
a81bb06	"there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't	secret	Charles Bukowski
a1f36cc	"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."	lying lies lovers hate secret love truth deciet interview-with-the-vampire lestat lie secrets vampire vampires	Anne Rice
433d28c	I would prefer not to.	secret nobody melville puzzle mystery	Herman Melville
af08859	This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.	rage secret heartbreak picoult security empty	Jodi Picoult
b268228	There is nothing perfect...only life.	secret life	Sue Monk Kidd
8bb7f6e	Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems	ability prayer problem secret life inspirational overcome praying unexpected problems confront pray	Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]
dc480ee	You must suffer me to go my own dark way.	secret seclusion punishment	Robert Louis Stevenson
4e654fb	This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.	friends secret shopaholic secrets	Sophie Kinsella
4be6dd5	Saya akan pikul rahsia itu jika engkau percayakan kepada saya dan saya akan masukkan ke dalam perbendaharaan hati saya dan kemudian saya kunci pintunya erat-erat. Kunci itu akan saya lemparkan jauh-jauh sehingga seorang pun tak dapat mengambilnya kedalam lagi.	secret trust friendship inspirational	Hamka
aef6fbd	"And I suppose you know who Magnus' father is?" Luke said. "I paid a lot of money once to find it out," Raphael said."	secret magnus-father raphael-santiago mystery	Cassandra Clare
fd121f8	Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.	secret life remember	Gregory Maguire
87c2b99	But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.	secret power	Hilary Mantel
34c38c6	This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.	secret death	Jacqueline Carey
651b75f	Mutually assured destruction.	secret	Holly Black
7dd0e82	The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul.	secret shine sacred reflection soul	John O'Donohue
3497fc6	Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.	secret mask mystery psychology	P.D. James
8441284	Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.	secret law-of-contraries jo sisters	Louisa May Alcott
c7204d7	Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble.	man secret trouble	Sophie Kinsella
224d5b1	"The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic. "Well," said Jack at last. "What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?" "Yes!" whispered all the children. "Let's!"	secret island running-away mysterious children lonely	Enid Blyton
74cbe17	Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.	secret life mask	Mary Balogh
4ab0d82	"I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will have to keep that DEAD secret. See? If you don't, if you even breathe a word of what you've heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes." Sam fell on his knees, trembling. "Get up, Sam!" Said Gandalf. "I have thought of something better than that. Something to keep you quiet, and punish you properly for listening. You shall go away with Mr. Frodo!" "Me, sir!" cried Sam, springing up like a dog invited for a walk. "Me go and see Elves and all! Hooray!" he shouted, and then burst into tears."	secret gandalf frodo-baggins samwise-gamgee toad elves tears snakes	J.R.R. Tolkien
7eaebcd	I thought if I told no one it might not be true.	true secret truth tell wide-sargasso-sea	Jean Rhys
2006dee	Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.	mankind silence men secret strength doubting efforts toil wise-men doubts strive effort	Bram Stoker
92257de	How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?	secret	Alice Sebold
d79b5df	"Pudge/Colonel: "I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan tomorrow morning. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way you cut me out of everything hurt me, and so I kept what I knew to myself. But then even after I wasn't mad anymore, I still didn't say anything, and I don't even really know why. Pudge had that kiss, I guess. And I had this secret. You've mostly figured this out, but the truth is that I saw her that night, I'd stayed up late with Lara and some people, and then I was falling asleep and I heard her crying outside my back window. It was like 3:15 that morning, maybe, amd I walked out there and saw her walking through the soccer field. I tried to talk to her, but she was in a hurry. She told me that her mother was dead eight years that day, and that she always put flowers on her mother's grave on the anniversary but she forgot that year. She was out there looking for flowers, but it was too early-too wintry. That's how I knew about January 10. I still have no idea whether it was suicide. She was so sad, and I didn't know what to say or do. I think she counted on me to be the one person who would always say and do the right things to help her, but I couldn"t. I just thought she was looking for flowers. I didn't know she was going to go. She was drunk just trashed drunk, and I really didn't think she would drive or anything. I thought she would just cry herself to sleep and then drive to visit her mom the next day or something. She walked away, and then I heard a car start. I don't know what I was thinking. So I let her go too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to." Takumi"	secret anniversary-death love-alaska-young mother-s-death pudge-colonel takumi truth-and-lies letter girlfriend mother	John Green
a297a28	Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three	thoughts secret	Edith Hamilton
e63af64	In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.	world books secret pages	Alberto Manguel
176bc4e	When the dog bites, when the bee stings... I simply remember I have a boyfriend and suddenly things don't seem quite so completely shit.	secret	Sophie Kinsella
37bcf19	Relationships should be built on trust and truth.	relationship secret trust truth	Sophie Kinsella
db51bbc	Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being -- not a constant state -- that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.	secret souls	Vladimir Nabokov
5671e7d	The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.	nature secret enchanting haze willows island june mysterious	Enid Blyton
1dee002	Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.	secret trust secrets	Robin Hobb
fd9be33	...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.	secret love confront undeclared unspoken betray reveal betrayal desire	Robin Hobb
8982bb4	"Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she said when Deborah reached her. "We saw you coming." The wicket gate became a turnstile. Deborah pushed against it and there was no resistance, she was through. "What is it?" she asked. "Am I really here at last? Is this the bottom of the pool?" "It could be," smiled the woman. "There are so many ways. You just happened to choose this one." Other people were pressing to come through. They had no faces, they were only shadows. Deborah stood aside to let them by, and in a moment they had gone, all phantoms. "Why only now, tonight?" asked Deborah. "Why not in the afternoon, when I came to the pool?" "It's a trick," said the woman. "You seize on the moment in time. We were here this afternoon. We're always here. Our life goes on around you, but nobody knows it. The trick's easier by night, that's all." "Am I dreaming, then?" asked Deborah. "No," said the woman, "this isn't a dream. And it isn't death, either. It's the secret world." The secret world... It was something Deborah had always known, and now the pattern was complete. The memory of it, and the relief, were so tremendous that something seemed to burst inside her heart. "Of course..." she said, "of course..." and everything that had ever been fell into place. There was no disharmony. The joy was indescribable, and the surge of feeling, like wings about her in the air, lifted her away from the turnstile and the woman, and she had all knowledge. That was it - the invasion of knowledge. ("The Pool")"	time dream secret death imagination fantasy innocence knowledge night creativity	Daphne du Maurier
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
1e556a2	What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told.	secret trust betray cultivate decide employ purchase seek-out collect discern reveal use utilize path hide threat knowledge learn power	Robin Hobb
f5d87ab	There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.	secret wisdom privacy	Jodi Picoult
b957959	But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man: the ability to function with the worst possible secrets in your brain. Which was why so many grown-up men seemed so ridiculous. They never felt that responsibility. They were untested, unproven; they were boys in grown-up clothes.	killing man responsibility murder depression secret survival secrets guilt	Blake Nelson
b3f8028	A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.	silence secret shut-up mouth	David Eddings
7fd6013	I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.	secret life	Anne Lamott
5b31ea5	Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we allow them to remain malignant. You need to be able to articulate something if you want it to go away, and to do that, you must acknowledge that it exists.	fear secret	Azar Nafisi
59f8d66	May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?	secret	Ayn Rand
8dc9ca2	Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself...	happy secret	Alexandre Dumas
c6c245f	One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness.	laughter secret life tribe holiness	Anne Lamott
c876c6d	What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.... Be very chary of revealing your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.	secret trust careful collect discern puppet reveal use utilize wary hide threat power	Robin Hobb
eaddf60	Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse.	secret midnighters the	Scott Westerfeld
ab24c3b	The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -William Morris.	happy secret life everyday genuine elevate hygge interest	Louisa Thomsen Brits
5e43dfb	It's very important my parent's don't think I'm starting to fall in love with people, because then they might notice that I'm growing up, and I'm kind of trying to keep it a secret. I think it will cause an incident	humour feminist funny secret growing-up	Caitlin Moran
cfb55b4	How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. You guard them inside you, because, if you don't, there's no distinction between inside and outside. Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside. A radical exhibitionist is a person who has forfeited his identity. But identity in a vacuum is also meaningless. Sooner or later, the inside of you needs a witness. Otherwise you're just a cow, a cat, a stone, a thing in the world, trapped in your thingness. To have an identity, you have to believe that other identities equally exist. You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets.	relationship secret trust	Jonathan Franzen
ff36d4b	The virtues have secret names: they are, so difficult of access, secret things. Everything that is worthy is secret.	secret the-black-prince worthy virtues	Iris Murdoch
8c16e7c	...the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.	secret powerful	Umberto Eco
fabd6b3	You don't look very happy.	secret	Scott Westerfeld
cc027d4	How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the epoque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible it is.	arts empathy beauty secret imagination darkness cryptic ugly	Charles Baudelaire
9f3a0e8	The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.	secret the-message-to-the-planet iris-murdoch isolated secretive separate	Iris Murdoch
cdf2d84	A une epoque de sa vie, il y avait de cela de nombreuses annees, elle avait perdu sa foi en Dieu. Elle l'avait maudit, hai, accuse d'etre responsable de tous les maux de la terre. Mais le mal n'etait pas une creation de Dieu. L'homme avait invente le mal. Finalement, elle avait reussi a pardonner a Dieu.	secret past love secret-affair united-kingdom turkey grandmother istanbul london suspense	Barbara Taylor Bradford
fc01d13	You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of life they sought your pity and you had none. You will not speak of the boys who died screaming for their mothers while you twisted a blade in their guts and snarled your scorn into their ears. You will not confess that you wake in the night, covered in sweat, heart hammering, shrinking from the memories. You will not talk of that, because that is the horror, and the horror is held in the heart's hoard, a secret, and to admit it is to admit fear, and we are warriors. We do not fear. We strut. We go to battle like heroes. We stink of shit.	heroes fear secret shit warriors horror	Bernard Cornwell
ee43bdf	Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the world, every voice, every word written or spoken has more than its literal meaning, that it tells us a Secret.	meaning secret perspectives fact	Umberto Eco

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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

secret inspiration the-little-prince importance

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

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William Goldman

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"there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't

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Charles Bukowski

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"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."

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Anne Rice

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I would prefer not to.

secret nobody melville puzzle mystery

Herman Melville

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This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

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Jodi Picoult

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There is nothing perfect...only life.

secret life

Sue Monk Kidd

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Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems

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Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

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You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

secret seclusion punishment

Robert Louis Stevenson

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This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

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Sophie Kinsella

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Saya akan pikul rahsia itu jika engkau percayakan kepada saya dan saya akan masukkan ke dalam perbendaharaan hati saya dan kemudian saya kunci pintunya erat-erat. Kunci itu akan saya lemparkan jauh-jauh sehingga seorang pun tak dapat mengambilnya kedalam lagi.

secret trust friendship inspirational

Hamka

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"And I suppose you know who Magnus' father is?" Luke said. "I paid a lot of money once to find it out," Raphael said."

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Cassandra Clare

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Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

secret life remember

Gregory Maguire

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But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

secret power

Hilary Mantel

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This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

secret death

Jacqueline Carey

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Mutually assured destruction.

secret

Holly Black

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The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul.

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John O'Donohue

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Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.

secret mask mystery psychology

P.D. James

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Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.

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Louisa May Alcott

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Never tell a man all about yourself, it's bound to lead to trouble.

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Sophie Kinsella

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"The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic. "Well," said Jack at last. "What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?" "Yes!" whispered all the children. "Let's!"

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Enid Blyton

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Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

secret life mask

Mary Balogh

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"I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will have to keep that DEAD secret. See? If you don't, if you even breathe a word of what you've heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes." Sam fell on his knees, trembling. "Get up, Sam!" Said Gandalf. "I have thought of something better than that. Something to keep you quiet, and punish you properly for listening. You shall go away with Mr. Frodo!" "Me, sir!" cried Sam, springing up like a dog invited for a walk. "Me go and see Elves and all! Hooray!" he shouted, and then burst into tears."

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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I thought if I told no one it might not be true.

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Jean Rhys

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Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

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Bram Stoker

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How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

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Alice Sebold

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"Pudge/Colonel: "I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan tomorrow morning. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way you cut me out of everything hurt me, and so I kept what I knew to myself. But then even after I wasn't mad anymore, I still didn't say anything, and I don't even really know why. Pudge had that kiss, I guess. And I had this secret. You've mostly figured this out, but the truth is that I saw her that night, I'd stayed up late with Lara and some people, and then I was falling asleep and I heard her crying outside my back window. It was like 3:15 that morning, maybe, amd I walked out there and saw her walking through the soccer field. I tried to talk to her, but she was in a hurry. She told me that her mother was dead eight years that day, and that she always put flowers on her mother's grave on the anniversary but she forgot that year. She was out there looking for flowers, but it was too early-too wintry. That's how I knew about January 10. I still have no idea whether it was suicide. She was so sad, and I didn't know what to say or do. I think she counted on me to be the one person who would always say and do the right things to help her, but I couldn"t. I just thought she was looking for flowers. I didn't know she was going to go. She was drunk just trashed drunk, and I really didn't think she would drive or anything. I thought she would just cry herself to sleep and then drive to visit her mom the next day or something. She walked away, and then I heard a car start. I don't know what I was thinking. So I let her go too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to." Takumi"

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John Green

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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

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Edith Hamilton

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In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world.

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Alberto Manguel

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When the dog bites, when the bee stings... I simply remember I have a boyfriend and suddenly things don't seem quite so completely shit.

secret

Sophie Kinsella

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Relationships should be built on trust and truth.

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Sophie Kinsella

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Whatever his secret was, I have learnt one secret too, and namely: that the soul is but a manner of being -- not a constant state -- that any soul may be yours, if you find and follow its undulations. The hereafter may be the full ability of consciously living in any chosen soul, in any number of souls, all of them unconscious of their interchangeable burden.

secret souls

Vladimir Nabokov

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The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

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Enid Blyton

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Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

secret trust secrets

Robin Hobb

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...some secrets beg to be betrayed. The secret of undeclared love is like that.

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Robin Hobb

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"Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she said when Deborah reached her. "We saw you coming." The wicket gate became a turnstile. Deborah pushed against it and there was no resistance, she was through. "What is it?" she asked. "Am I really here at last? Is this the bottom of the pool?" "It could be," smiled the woman. "There are so many ways. You just happened to choose this one." Other people were pressing to come through. They had no faces, they were only shadows. Deborah stood aside to let them by, and in a moment they had gone, all phantoms. "Why only now, tonight?" asked Deborah. "Why not in the afternoon, when I came to the pool?" "It's a trick," said the woman. "You seize on the moment in time. We were here this afternoon. We're always here. Our life goes on around you, but nobody knows it. The trick's easier by night, that's all." "Am I dreaming, then?" asked Deborah. "No," said the woman, "this isn't a dream. And it isn't death, either. It's the secret world." The secret world... It was something Deborah had always known, and now the pattern was complete. The memory of it, and the relief, were so tremendous that something seemed to burst inside her heart. "Of course..." she said, "of course..." and everything that had ever been fell into place. There was no disharmony. The joy was indescribable, and the surge of feeling, like wings about her in the air, lifted her away from the turnstile and the woman, and she had all knowledge. That was it - the invasion of knowledge. ("The Pool")"

time dream secret death imagination fantasy innocence knowledge night creativity

Daphne du Maurier

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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

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What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes a very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power. All men desirous of power should become collectors of secrets. There is no secret too small to be valuable. All men value their own secrets far above those of others. A scullery maid may be willing to betray a prince before allowing the name of her secret lover to be told.

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Robin Hobb

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There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

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Jodi Picoult

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But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man: the ability to function with the worst possible secrets in your brain. Which was why so many grown-up men seemed so ridiculous. They never felt that responsibility. They were untested, unproven; they were boys in grown-up clothes.

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Blake Nelson

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A man should never miss an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.

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David Eddings

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I kept my expectations low, which is one of the secrets of life.

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Anne Lamott

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Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we allow them to remain malignant. You need to be able to articulate something if you want it to go away, and to do that, you must acknowledge that it exists.

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Azar Nafisi

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May knowledge come to us! What is this secret our heart has understood and yet will not reveal to us, although it seems to beat as if it were endeavoring to tell it?

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Ayn Rand

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Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself...

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Alexandre Dumas

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One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness.

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Anne Lamott

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What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible.... Be very chary of revealing your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. Be even more careful of sharing your secrets lest you find yourself a puppet dancing on someone else's strings.

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Robin Hobb

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Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse.

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Scott Westerfeld

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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -William Morris.

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Louisa Thomsen Brits

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It's very important my parent's don't think I'm starting to fall in love with people, because then they might notice that I'm growing up, and I'm kind of trying to keep it a secret. I think it will cause an incident

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Caitlin Moran

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How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. You guard them inside you, because, if you don't, there's no distinction between inside and outside. Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside. A radical exhibitionist is a person who has forfeited his identity. But identity in a vacuum is also meaningless. Sooner or later, the inside of you needs a witness. Otherwise you're just a cow, a cat, a stone, a thing in the world, trapped in your thingness. To have an identity, you have to believe that other identities equally exist. You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets.

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Jonathan Franzen

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The virtues have secret names: they are, so difficult of access, secret things. Everything that is worthy is secret.

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Iris Murdoch

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...the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

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Umberto Eco

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You don't look very happy.

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Scott Westerfeld

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How convenient it is to declare that everything is totally ugly within the habit of the epoque, rather than applying oneself to extract from it the dark and cryptic beauty, however faint and invisible it is.

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Charles Baudelaire

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The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.

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Iris Murdoch

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A une epoque de sa vie, il y avait de cela de nombreuses annees, elle avait perdu sa foi en Dieu. Elle l'avait maudit, hai, accuse d'etre responsable de tous les maux de la terre. Mais le mal n'etait pas une creation de Dieu. L'homme avait invente le mal. Finalement, elle avait reussi a pardonner a Dieu.

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Barbara Taylor Bradford

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You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of life they sought your pity and you had none. You will not speak of the boys who died screaming for their mothers while you twisted a blade in their guts and snarled your scorn into their ears. You will not confess that you wake in the night, covered in sweat, heart hammering, shrinking from the memories. You will not talk of that, because that is the horror, and the horror is held in the heart's hoard, a secret, and to admit it is to admit fear, and we are warriors. We do not fear. We strut. We go to battle like heroes. We stink of shit.

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Bernard Cornwell

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Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; it leads you to think that every detail of the world, every voice, every word written or spoken has more than its literal meaning, that it tells us a Secret.

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Umberto Eco