#secrets

And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,' he added thoughtfully. 'We'll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.... Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don't we? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#comedy #dumbledore #harry-potter #secrets #art

And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? --- that opened upon a careful observer, now and then, in his eye, and closed again before one could fathom the strange depth partially disclosed; that something which used to make me fear and shrink, as if I had been wandering amongst volcanic-looking hills, and had suddenly felt the ground quiver, and seen it gape: that something, I, at intervals, beheld still; and with throbbing heart, but not with palsied nerves. Instead of wishing to shun, I longed only to dare --- to divine it; and I thought Miss Ingram happy, because one day she might look into the abyss at her leisure, explore its secrets and analyse their nature. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#analysis #character #darkness #insight #intuition

I never understood why Clark Kent was so hell bent on keeping Lois Lane in the dark. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#trust #travel

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#secret

My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what? ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#dark #family-saga #gothic #gwenn-wright #mystery

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#insecurity #secrets #spirit #weakness #freedom

The hell with your secrets,” shouted Bonnie. “Language, language! How about this: One of you has kept a secret all their life, and is doing so even now. One of you is a murderer—and I am not speaking of a vampire, or a mercy killing, or anything like that. And then there is the question of the true identity of Sage—good luck on your research there!One of you has already had their memory erased—and I don’t mean Damon or Stefan. And what about the secret, stolen kiss? And then there is the question of what happened the night of the motel, that it seems that nobody but Elena can recall. You might ask her sometime about her theories about Camelot. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#life

Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart. ↗

— Amit Ray

#science-of-happiness #secrets-of-happiness #life

La madrugada es la mejor aliada de un secreto ↗

— Alessandra Neymar

#spanish #spanish

You like him, Rose. Why don't you just admit that, at least to me? ↗

— Louise Rozett

#crush #friends #love #secrets #love