"These are open secrets, so to speak. Of the kind we dare not articulate, for fear of wounding those close to us."

Secrets, Truth, Observation, Fear

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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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"But some secrets are too delicious not to share."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

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Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"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."

Lemony Snicket, American Author

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Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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Jim Butcher, American Author

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George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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Ian McDiarmid, Scottish Actor

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"Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarely-perhaps never-furious with him, in life. How can I forgive you, you've ruined both our lives."

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"In love there are two things - bodies and words."

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"He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul."

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"I feel very transparent in myself. I'm more of an observer. I'm interested in what's going on. I'm not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people - but when I'm not with them I don't have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water."

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