I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the bottom of the laundry bag, or big things, like the best way to get a boy to chase you is to ignore him, or medium things, like if you cut an onion under running water your eyes won't sting, and if you wash your fingers afterwards with lemon-juice they won't stink. I used to want to know all the secrets, and every time I learned one, I felt like I'd taken--a step. On a journey. To a place. A destination: to be the kind of person who knew all this stuff, the way everyone around me seemed to know all this stuff. I thought that once I knew enough secrets, I'd be like them. . Cory Doctorow
I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.
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Nicholas Sparks
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.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
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Anne Rice
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.
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Oscar Wilde
Ronan's second secret was Adam Parrish.
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Maggie Stiefvater
More Quotes By Cory Doctorow
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of passing those books on to our children. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Indeed, how many of us...
What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
