“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its own recurrence.”
“I mean, we all have secrets we keep from each other. We all think things…and no one knows about it.” “Shanna, I know about the vibrator.”
“Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.”
“Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”
“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”
“A life was a secret thing, even between a husband and wife. Your secret life was completely your own, and because it was unknown, would never be mourned. The secret life of each individual went unhonored through eternity.”