#secret

She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#the-secret-garden #funny

Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed: A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body of a jet. It tries to find a method of traveling faster than walking. ↗

— Toba Beta

#mystery #science #secret #technology #truth

Every woman is well aware of the deadly ingredients of her soul which is why they all detest each other. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#anguish #animosity #detest #female #girls

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#flattery #love #secret-love #sense #unavowed-love

There is nothing perfect...only life. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life #secret #life

For it wasn't the secret--the secret that wasn't a secret anyway--that led to austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies. ↗

— Sue Miller

#lies #secrets #silences #sue-miller #while-i-was-gone

As long as you live under my roof, you'll do what I say!" he shouted. Then I'll find another roof, I thought. "You understand me?" he said. "Yes sir, I understand" I said, and I did too. I understand that a new rooftop would do wonders for me. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#secret-life-of-bees #life

No secret can remain hidden for ever. Silently and patiently, it waits in the dark. It lets you build your life, carefully stacking the bricks one by one, and then it appears. It deals its blow and everything crumbles. That’s why it remains intact and incorruptible in time, waiting for its ultimate destiny to be revealed. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

#secrets #truth #life

If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it. ↗

— Toba Beta

#believe #defy #deny #life #miracle

I wonder which is preferable--to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin--everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone--and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life