It may seem an easy task to disregard a secret but secrets are like splinters beneath the flesh, the infection spreads and spreads and then the limb turns gangrenous and must be sawn away, all for the sake of a sliver of wood.
I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
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Stephanie Perkins
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
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William Goldman
I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
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Anne Rice
I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself.
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Toba Beta
Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.
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Toba Beta
More Quotes By Keith Miller
Stories are life, " protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.
Beyond the stars you see are other stars, stars beyond stars, ' she told him, 'and all are dreams, like shoals of fish in the oceans of the night.
We never look at the grass, though it is ubiquitous. If it's left alone to shake its hair loose it will produce tiny tassels and flowers, miniature and beautiful, that I'd never noticed before. Beauty is so often size and commotion for us, and fancy...
...his favorite books, those he'd read over and over so he knew just the lurch his heart would make when he turned the page and encountered the illustration of the despondent dragon under a half-moon or the fervor with which he flipped the final pages...
He went to sleep as soon as they'd gone, waking in the middle of the night and walking outside into a sky whose stars hung so low he felt he strolled among them and he could see indeed, so clear the air, the very flames...
