“Whispering like it's a secret, only to condemn the one who hears it, with a heavy heart.”

“She smiles at me. "You know, a secret is only half as heavy if you have some one to carry it with you.”

“He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?""Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body.""No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death.”

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

“You can keep it a secret.... But secrets have their own weight, and it can be a very heavy one.”

“Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable...”