“Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.”

“Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.”

“I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.”

“We always hate people who surprise our secrets…”

“Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad, just when you especially want them to be good!”

“It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.”

“…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.”