The most secretive news that can make you to shake hands with great people is humility. Pride on the other way is a dream killer.
Why me?” I secreted into her ear. “You were the only one I saw,” she whispered back, making my heart burst.
I wondered if full-blooded vampires had something like blue balls for their fangs if they didn’t get to feed when they were expecting to. Like some kind of pseudo-sexual gingivitis.
If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.
The only thing worse than fighting a giant scorpion was fighting a giant scorpion who was trying to protect her young.
You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.
A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told
Too bad that miserable tribe died with their secrets.” Tossing the crystal across the table, she announced, “Ladies and gentlemen, the kingdom of the gods is within our grasp.
It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
My dark secret is I’ve always wished I was Gatsby. As heartbroken as he was and as horrible a fate as he endured, I admired that he loved. It’s a difficult thing to do.
Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.
Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor.
A brick is a mythical object that empowers its handler and enables them to conquer the world and control the globe through secret occult knowledge. Just ask the Masons.
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.
They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.
Run. Flee. Fuck off. Vanish from my presence and take the foul stench of your sordid secret with you.
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.
One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
To read Transtromer - the best times are at night, in silence, and alone - is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds. Each of his readers reads him as a ...
Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.
