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"But some secrets are too delicious not to share."
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"Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played."
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Personal Development

"But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink."
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Personal Development

"I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles."
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Personal Development

"There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times."
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Personal Development

"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."
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Personal Development

"I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them."
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Personal Development

"If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner."
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Personal Development

"I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalita's, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe."
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"These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us."
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