These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us.

Joyce Carol Oates
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  1. I'd learned that some things are best kept secret. - Nicholas Sparks

  2. True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them. - Michael Bassey Johnson

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

  4. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. - Oscar Wilde

  5. Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish. - Maggie Stiefvater

More Quotes By Joyce Carol Oates
  1. The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

  2. In love there are two things - bodies and words.

  3. A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

  4. If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

  5. And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

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