#confession

His chains chinked softly. I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health. Yes, I meant for him to die. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#improvement

All this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#introverts #introvert

... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#introverts #talking #introvert

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#autobiographical #confession #diary #even #film

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality. ↗

— George Weinberg

#act #box #confession #engage #every

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ↗

— Horatio Alger

#confession #fasting #himself #night #passing

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#confession #evil #first #good #good works

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#lie #myth #neither #nor

My whole act is confession. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#confession #whole

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed. ↗

— Maria Monk

#confession #constantly #detained #directed #enough