“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough”
“Anything will give up it's secrets if you love it enough.”
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
“Secret to what?""Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.”
“I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.”
“I wished she'd been smart enough, or loving enough, to realize everybody has burdens that crush them, only they don't give up their children.”