Everyone has secret. Like the oyster with its grain of sand, we bury it deep within, coating it with opalescent layers, as if that could heal our mortal wound. Some of us devote our entire lives to keeping our secret hidden, safe from those who might pry it from us, hoarding it like the pearl, only to discover that it escapes us when we least expect it. revealed by a flash of fear in our eyes when caught unawares, by a sudden pain, a rage or hatred, or an all-consuming shame. . C.W. Gortner
How can I tell anyone that there has always lived within me a rusty sense of disgust-a dull, brackish water that I suspect is my soul?
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A.M. Homes
I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.
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Vera Nazarian
A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.
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Lemony Snicket
Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using...
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David Mitchell
This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died.
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T. Scott McLeod
More Quotes By C.W. Gortner
Sometimes it's the simplest things we should most long for.
The world is only as small as we see it, my lady. Imagination knows no limits.
Youth is no protection; in the end, life scars us all.
Everyone has secret. Like the oyster with its grain of sand, we bury it deep within, coating it with opalescent layers, as if that could heal our mortal wound. Some of us devote our entire lives to keeping our secret hidden, safe from those who...
The truth is, not one of is innocent. We all have sins to confess.
