131 Inspirational Secret Quotes

In a world where whispers often hold the most profound wisdom, inspirational secret quotes offer a unique glimpse into hidden depths of encouragement and motivation. These carefully curated pieces of wisdom invite contemplation, urging us to look beyond the obvious and find strength in the mysteries of life. Whether you're seeking a spark to ignite your passion, words to soothe your soul, or a gentle nudge towards a new perspective, this collection of 131 quotes promises to inspire and enlighten. Join us on this journey through poetic insights and transformative thoughts, and discover the power of secrets unveiled.

1. “To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.” - Samuel Johnson

2. “Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky

3. “He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.” - Sigmund Freud

4. “there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm too clever, I only let him outat night sometimeswhen everybody's asleep.I say, I know that you're there,so don't besad.then I put him back,but he's singing a littlein there, I haven't quite let himdieand we sleep together likethatwith oursecret pactand it's nice enough tomake a manweep, but I don'tweep, doyou?” - Charles Bukowski

5. “In any of my pages in any of my books may life a perfect account of my secret experience of the world. ” - Alberto Manguel

6. “The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.” - Orson Scott Card

7. “Uncertainty is one of government recipes.” - Toba Beta

8. “There is nothing perfect...only life.” - Sue Monk Kidd

9. “Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.It is laughter.” - Vera Nazarian

10. “I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.” - Vera Nazarian

11. “You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.” - Deb Caletti

12. “Sarah Lynn strides out of the stairwell. Lawrence watches her go. The door slushes shut behind her, and he turns to me with a tightened jaw. I want to tell him: No, no, you've got it all wrong. I don't care if you kiss a white girl. I don't care if you love a white girl. I just wish you'd chosen a white girl worthy of your love.Lawrence's Adam's apple jerks up and down, and I realize that in addition to whatever else he's feeling, he's scared. He's in love with the darling of the school, Sarah Lynn Lancaster, ad he's afriad I'll expose his secret. I give a tiny shake of my head, wanting him to know he has nothing to fear, not from me.” - Lauren Myracle

13. “But remember what I said about forgetting what I said?” - Pseudonymous Bosch

14. “It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.” - Pseudonymous Bosch

15. “Kira: L, do you knowGods of deathlove apples?L: Damn you, Kira...” - Tsugumi Ohba

16. “Secrets tear you apart.” - Mitch Albom

17. “Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind.Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things.Their language has been lost.But not the gestures.” - Vera Nazarian

18. “Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.” - Craig Ferguson

19. “Look: the trees exist; the houseswe dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only wepass by it all, like a rush of air.And everything conspires to keep quiet about us,half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope.” - Rainer Maria Rilke

20. “Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.” - Gregory Maguire

21. “The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.” - Karl Lagerfeld

22. “We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.” - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

23. “Only after you've done the exorcism, thenyou'll understand that ghost's also a species.” - Toba Beta

24. “People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.” - Sue Monk Kidd

25. “Every man should believe in something.If not..he would doubt everything, even himself.” - Toba Beta

26. “This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.” - Jodi Picoult

27. “There's always another secret.' -Kelsier” - Brandon Sanderson

28. “You can't stop the futureYou can't rewind the pastThe only way to learn the secret...is to press play.” - Jay Asher

29. “Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body. The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

30. “If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later, then you would call me a liar. But If you're willing to dig further about truth that force me do it, then you would understand my reason. But you wouldn't acknowledge it.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

31. “There's no heaven as I had known before. It's just a great universe which is available to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

32. “Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

33. “The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

34. “No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for you…to be a better man.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

35. “If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

36. “Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

37. “Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

38. “I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

39. “If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also...but of course if you were able to stand soberly after the first slap.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

40. “Smartass Disciple: Master, how do you heal the broken heart?Master of Stupidity: It isn’t a disease need to be healed. It’s life.” - Toba Beta

41. “The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.” - Toba Beta

42. “Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.” - Toba Beta

43. “If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.” - Toba Beta

44. “There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words,when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.” - Toba Beta

45. “Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.” - Toba Beta

46. “There are no walls at the edge of this universe...absence of gravity is the limit of space existence.” - Toba Beta

47. “There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart. The heart, making itself guilty of such secrets, must perforce hold them, until the day when all hidden things shall be revealed. Nor have I so read or interpreted the Holy Writ, as to understand that the disclosure of human thoughts and deeds, then to be made, is intended as part of the retribution. That, surely, were a shallow view of it. No; these revelations, unless I greatly error, are meant merely to promote the intellectual satisfaction of all intelligent beings, who will stand waiting, on that day, to see the dark problem of this life made plain. A knowledge of men's hearts will be needful to the completest solution of that problem. And I conceive, moreover, that the hearts holding such secrets as you speak of will yield them up, at that last day, not with reluctance, but with a joy unutterable.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

48. “Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate.” - Wilfred Owen

49. “The truth is in the heart;out there is true darkness.” - Toba Beta

50. “Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.” - Toba Beta

51. “I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, there's something that is within you, there's power within you, that's greater than the world. It will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you. It will clothe you. It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence, if you let it. Now, that is what I know for sure.” - Michael Beckwith

52. “Latchkey! I mean . . . I want to talk to you . . .' He fell silent, glancing behind him and shifting from foot to foot, his waterproof trousers rattling like the bulls' bladders that boys use to learn swimming. Sterlingov angrily spat out his cigarette. 'Well? What about?' 'A . . . about a secret matter ,' Alyoshka whispered. Dozens of ears floated around them in the dust waves; the whisper was heard, and it ran on like a spark along a gunpowder wick. Alyoshka's secret message, the mysterious special clothing, the deacon's catastrophe-all this was too much. The atmosphere was charged with thousands of volts, and something was needed to discharge the electricity, to clear the air. ("X")” - Yevgeny Zamyatin

53. “Vystup na prvy schod s vierou. Nemusis vidiet cele schodisko. Jednoducho vystup na prvy schod.” - Martin Luther King

54. “Vsetko co sme, je dosledkom je dosledkom toho, co sme si mysleli” - Budha

55. “Ci si myslite, ze to dokaze, alebo nedokaze, v oboch pripadoch mate pravdu.” - Henry Ford

56. “Someone owns trillions and keeps simple. I would.Someone reads all minds and looks average. I would.Someone knows the future and doesn't tell. I would.” - Toba Beta

57. “You must suffer me to go my own dark way.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

58. “I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.” - Deb Caletti

59. “Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask.” - Louisa May Alcott

60. “Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours.” - Stephen King

61. “If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.” - Federico Chini

62. “I suppose it had something to do with it being a secret, just how much it had meant to me. Maybe all of us at Hailsham had little secrets like that--little private nooks created out of thin air where we could go off alone with our fears and longings. But the very fact that we had such needs would have felt wrong to us at the time--like somehow we were letting the side down.” - Kazuo Ishiguro

63. “Saya akan pikul rahsia itu jika engkau percayakan kepada saya dan saya akan masukkan ke dalam perbendaharaan hati saya dan kemudian saya kunci pintunya erat-erat. Kunci itu akan saya lemparkan jauh-jauh sehingga seorang pun tak dapat mengambilnya kedalam lagi.” - Hamka

64. “Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.” - Karl Lagerfeld

65. “Mutually assured destruction.” - Holly Black

66. “The secret of happiness is something to do” - John Burroughs

67. “He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).” - Ann Voskamp

68. “It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another.Ignorance is our deepest secret.And it is one of the scariest things out there, because those of us who are most ignorant are also the ones who often don't know it or don't want to admit it.Here is a quick test:If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.Before it is too late, go out there and find someone who, in your opinion, believes, assumes, or considers certain things very strongly and very differently from you, and just have a basic honest conversation.It will do both of you good.” - Vera Nazarian

69. “Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she said when Deborah reached her. "We saw you coming." The wicket gate became a turnstile. Deborah pushed against it and there was no resistance, she was through. "What is it?" she asked. "Am I really here at last? Is this the bottom of the pool?" "It could be," smiled the woman. "There are so many ways. You just happened to choose this one." Other people were pressing to come through. They had no faces, they were only shadows. Deborah stood aside to let them by, and in a moment they had gone, all phantoms. "Why only now, tonight?" asked Deborah. "Why not in the afternoon, when I came to the pool?""It's a trick," said the woman. "You seize on the moment in time. We were here this afternoon. We're always here. Our life goes on around you, but nobody knows it. The trick's easier by night, that's all." "Am I dreaming, then?" asked Deborah."No," said the woman, "this isn't a dream. And it isn't death, either. It's the secret world." The secret world... It was something Deborah had always known, and now the pattern was complete. The memory of it, and the relief, were so tremendous that something seemed to burst inside her heart. "Of course..." she said, "of course..." and everything that had ever been fell into place. There was no disharmony. The joy was indescribable, and the surge of feeling, like wings about her in the air, lifted her away from the turnstile and the woman, and she had all knowledge. That was it - the invasion of knowledge. ("The Pool")” - Daphne du Maurier

70. “I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung my out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. What ever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.'Ere this speech ended, I became sensible of Heathcliff's presence. Having noticed a slight movement, I turned my head, and saw him rise from the bench, and steal out noiselessly. He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed to hear no further.” - Emily Brontë

71. “She pouted prettily, and he wondered if that was one of the things they taught wealthy young girls at schools like Miss Porter's. If not, it had been passed down from one generation to another as carefully as the secret of fire.” - Kristin Hannah

72. “Our analyses of the FDA data showed relatively little difference between the effects of antidepressants and the effects of placebos. Indeed, the effects were so small that they did not qualify as clinically significant. The drug companies knew how small the effect of their medications were compared to placebos, and so did the FDA and other regulatory agencies. The companies found various ways to make the data seem more favorable to their products, and the FDA helped them keep their negative data secret. In fact, in some instances, the FDA urged the companies to keep negative data hidden, even when the companies wanted to reveal them. My colleagues and I hadn't really discovered anything new. We had merely revealed their 'dirty little secret'.” - Irving Kirsch

73. “A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear.” - Edmond Rostand

74. “Ein Geheimnis ist soviel wert wie der der es uns anvertraut.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

75. “How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?” - Alice Sebold

76. “Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes.” - Janet Taylor Lisle

77. “I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.” - Anne Rice

78. “Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.” - Cassandra Clare

79. “Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.” - William Goldman

80. “I survived by keeping my emotions in check – by maintaining my composure and tucking it all away. I managed to stay under the radar, skating through school without anyone truly remembering I was here. My teachers acknowledged my academic successes and my coaches depended upon my athletic abilities, but I wasn’t important enough to make a recognizable social contribution. I was easily forgettable. That’s what I counted on.” - Rebecca Donovan

81. “But it is no use to justify yourself. It is no good to explain. It is weak to be anecdotal. It is wise to conceal the past even if there is nothing to conceal. A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.” - Hilary Mantel

82. “Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.” - Bernie Mcgill

83. “For the next couple of weeks she held Peter like a secret in her heart, lying right under her necklace. I could see him written on her face, and Tik Tok, too, seemed to catch shadows of him, because he'd stop to stare at her, puzzled, as if he'd just seen the boy flit across her eyes-seen the ghost of the kiss lingering for a second on the skin of her neck before disappearing.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

84. “Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for most of her life, smiles never came easily to her face. But this one was half all right."I miss you already," he said.Tiger Lily wanted to say it back. But she held on to the words greedily, too caught in the habit of keeping herself a secret. And Peter-half sadly, half-expectantly-let her go.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

85. “It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful; it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart--that is in itself the beautiful part.” - Dana Candler

86. “Look for the copper tablet-box,Undo its bronze lock,Open the door to its secret,Lift out the lapis lazuli tablet and read it,The story of that man, Gilgamesh, who went through all kinds of sufferings.” - Stephanie Dalley

87. “Între eroare și prostie se poate observa un soi de înrudire și chiar o complicitate secretă pe care nimic, de-a lungul timpului, n-a izbutit s-o înlăture.” - Jean-Claude Carrière

88. “I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.” - Kristin Cashore

89. “Would you please do me the honor of telling me WHAT THE BLAZES IS GOING ON?” - Kristin Cashore

90. “Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

91. “The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.“Well,” said Jack at last. “What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?”“Yes!” whispered all the children.“Let’s!” - Enid Blyton

92. “The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.” - Enid Blyton

93. “Bet visada atsiranda vienas ar du, kurie išsineša paslaptį ir kamuojasi dėl jos taip niekada ir nepriartėdami prie jos išsiaiškinimo.” - Christopher Priest

94. “King Drowden has given his men instructions to infiltrate the town, bribe townspeople for the secrets of their neighbors, steal the neighbors’ hidden treasures. Much more subtle than Drowden’s usual smash and burn technique. We do hope Drowden isn’t growing a brain.” - Kristin Cashore

95. “No man can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips.” - Jed Rubenfeld

96. “If you don't start playing by my rules, you'll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office.” - Linda Pohl

97. “Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.” - Todd Stocker

98. “Todo buen matrimonio es un territorio secreto, un espacio necesariamente en blanco en el mapa de la sociedad. Lo que los demás no saben de él es lo que lo hace tuyo.” - Stephen King

99. “Tell me, how do get away from your own self?” she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They knew what I was. Somehow, they had found out my only secret.” - Shannon A Thompson

100. “If someone offered the chance to be happy for the rest of your life, everyone in the room will bid, but what they don't know that the secret is nothing, they all have the power already with them.One of the most bizarre quirks of human beings is that they have always craved for happiness and yet have always found it difficult to find the things that would really make them happy. The everlasting happiness cannot be achieved through other people or the materialistic things.” - RKSJ(Rohit Kumar Singh Jadon)

101. “I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.” - Jessica Sorensen

102. “Pudge/Colonel: "I am sorry that I have not talked to you before. I am not staying for graduation. I leave for Japan tomorrow morning. For a long time, I was mad at you. The way you cut me out of everything hurt me, and so I kept what I knew to myself. But then even after I wasn't mad anymore, I still didn't say anything, and I don't even really know why. Pudge had that kiss, I guess. And I had this secret. You've mostly figured this out, but the truth is that I saw her that night, I'd stayed up late with Lara and some people, and then I was falling asleep and I heard her crying outside my back window. It was like 3:15 that morning, maybe, amd I walked out there and saw her walking through the soccer field. I tried to talk to her, but she was in a hurry. She told me that her mother was dead eight years that day, and that she always put flowers on her mother's grave on the anniversary but she forgot that year. She was out there looking for flowers, but it was too early-too wintry. That's how I knew about January 10. I still have no idea whether it was suicide. She was so sad, and I didn't know what to say or do. I think she counted on me to be the one person who would always say and do the right things to help her, but I couldn"t. I just thought she was looking for flowers. I didn't know she was going to go. She was drunk just trashed drunk, and I really didn't think she would drive or anything. I thought she would just cry herself to sleep and then drive to visit her mom the next day or something. She walked away, and then I heard a car start. I don't know what I was thinking. So I let her go too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to." Takumi” - John Green

103. “He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.” - Dejan Stojanovic

104. “There are thousands of codes in the Torah which are decoded by the Talmud.” - H.W. Charles

105. “To not say all that can be said is the secret of discipline and economy.” - Dejan Stojanovic

106. “To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.” - Dejan Stojanovic

107. “To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

108. “To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.” - Dejan Stojanovic

109. “To write good poems is the secret of brevity.” - Dejan Stojanovic

110. “To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.” - Dejan Stojanovic

111. “To risk life to save a smile on a face of a woman or a child is the secret of chivalry.” - Dejan Stojanovic

112. “Will the day tell its secret Before it disappears, Becomes timeless night.” - Dejan Stojanovic

113. “The secret is writing down one simple line after another.” - Charles Bukowski

114. “This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died.” - T. Scott McLeod

115. “There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.” - Jodi Picoult

116. “...this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...” - Paul Hoffman

117. “Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse.""Worse how?""Normal.” - Scott Westerfeld

118. “For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.” - Carolyn Parkhurst

119. “In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” - Christopher Morley

120. “I did not have an opportunity to speak privately with Peter until just as he was leaving, when he handed me one of the Burns song-sheets and (with a most earnest look) told me to read it before I went to bed.The song was 'My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose,' but it was not until was up in my bedchamber that I saw he had written on the inside page: 'My mother would be honoured if you visited her after church tomorrow.” - Jennifer Paynter

121. “I stared up at the sky and raised my middle finger, just in case God was watching. I don't like being spied on.” - Annabel Pitcher

122. “I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will have to keep that DEAD secret. See? If you don't, if you even breathe a word of what you've heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass snakes." Sam fell on his knees, trembling. "Get up, Sam!" Said Gandalf. "I have thought of something better than that. Something to keep you quiet, and punish you properly for listening. You shall go away with Mr. Frodo!" "Me, sir!" cried Sam, springing up like a dog invited for a walk. "Me go and see Elves and all! Hooray!" he shouted, and then burst into tears.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

123. “Those who support such survivors of abuse often find it difficult to hear the reality of those survivors' lives and experience and are often unsupported themselves. Rather than being supported, workers are often ridiculed, castigated or accused of being gullible or of giving the survivor false memories. Many workers work in isolation and a climate of hostility and are unable to talk about the work they do.Yes, despite all the odds, survivors of ritual abuse are beginning to speak out about their experiences, and some people, mainly in voluntary organisations, are beginning to listen to them and support them.[Published 2001]” - Laurie Matthew

124. “In a nutshell, the process they [abusers in a ritual abuse group] use on survivors is designed to:break the will and personality of the person until they become as nothing... with no will of their own...no identity...then they... rebuild the person & shape their will in order to...try and make the person one of them...thus gaining powerIf abusers hold all the power, becoming one of them can, for some, be the only means of survival. However, this doesn't always work, instead survivors often find ways of regaining their own power and fighting back.” - Laurie Matthew

125. “Political prisoners describe:- extreme physical and emotional torture- distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality- sham killings- begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death- being forced to witness abusive acts on others- being forced to make impossible "choices"- boundaries smashed i.e. by the use of forced nakedness, shame, embarrassment- hoaxes, 'set ups', testing and tricks- being forced to hurt othersRitual abuse survivors often describe much the same things.” - Laurie Matthew

126. “In some counties, there is an actual named crime of ritual abuse and there too, there have been convictions.” - Laurie Matthew

127. “Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.” - Brandon Sanderson

128. “Love should never be a secret and it should never, ever be forgotten.” - Suzanne Palmieri

129. “Every personal existence was upheld by a secret.” - Anton Chehov

130. “I'm not trying to avoid you,' I replied lamely, but what else could I say? Sorry Brae but when I first came down to meet you I had no idea how hard it was going to be to avoid telling you that I was turning into a grotesque monster and I am worried that there is a good chance I could wake up one morning with a sudden lust for your blood. Somehow I didn't think that would go down particularly well.” - Heather James

131. “There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.” - Steve V. Cypert