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  1. Susan Vreeland _ Girl in Hyacinth Blue

    The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we been permitted to walk together Sunday afternoons under the wide sky.
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  2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky _ Notes from Underground, White

    There are certain things in a man's past which he does not divulge to everybody but, perhaps, only to his friends. Again there are certain things he will not divulge even to his friends; he will divulge them perhaps only to himself, and that, too, as a secret. But, finally, there are things which he is afraid to divulge even to himself, and every decent man has quite an accumulation of such things in his mind. I can put it even this way: the more decent a man is, the larger will the number of such things be.
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  3. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars

    We always hate people who surprise our secrets…
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  4. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Windy Poplars

    …there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.
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  5. Blake Nelson _ Paranoid Park

    But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is exactly the thing that made you a man: the ability to function with the worst possible secrets in your brain. Which was why so many grown-up men seemed so ridiculous. They never felt that responsibility. They were untested, unproven; they were boys in grown-up clothes.
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  6. Pat Conroy _ South of Broad

    I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.
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  7. John Fowles _ The French Lieutenant's Woman

    You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You have very considerable natural advantages. You have nothing to fear from life. A day will come when these recent unhappy years may seem no more than that cloud-stain over there upon Chesil Bank. You shall stand in sunlight-and smile at your own past sorrows.
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  8. Kate Atkinson _ A God in Ruins

    Secrets had the power to kill a marriage,she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said,it was secrets that could save a marriage.
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  9. Gregory Maguire _ Out of Oz

    Secrets are revealed as you are ready to understand them. It seems capricious and mean-spirited of the Grimmerie to hold back, to yield and then to tease with a single page – but then the world is the same way, isn't it. The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private language and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.
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  10. Gregory Maguire _ Wicked: The Life and Times of

    The real thing about evil… you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.
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  11. William Gibson _ Spook Country

    Secrets...are the very root of cool.
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  12. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    Because: if our secret defines us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it's there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it's not. Dream and magic, magic and delirium. The Unified Field Theory. A secret about a secret.
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