Ritualised child sexual abuse is about abuse of power, control and secrecy. Ten years ago many people found it difficult to believe that fathers actually raped their children, yet survivors of such abuses spoke out...

Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

Keep your secrets. You’re too young and beautiful not to have secrets.

If you drink, you risk divulging your secrets. Here, have another glass.

Give a man a mask, and he’ll tell you deeper and darker truths. But he’ll also be more abusive, unaccountable, and demonic.

I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.

Secrets are more powerful when people know you’ve got them,” said Mr. Sutton. “You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

Figuring out the secret of the universe is like trying to read a brand after the steer’s been made into hamburger.”~Will Durham from Crossroads, A Music Novel

Houses are like people, Agent Lemieux. They have secrets. I’ll tell you something I’ve learned.’Armand Gamache dropped his voice so that Agent Lemieux had to strain to hear.’Do you know what makes us sick, Agent...

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

I adore the ocean and its vastness, as if it is trying to teach me something, as if it is trying to teach me to remain calm whatever the situation maybe. It holds such a...

I had loved Kitty -I would always love Kitty. But I had lived with her a kind of queer half-life, hiding from my own true self. Since then I had refused to love at all,...

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.”[The Sick Chamber (The New Monthly Magazine , August 1830)]

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it’s not your secret to tell.

Some things should never be said. Not out loud in clear, simple words. You talk around them. You leave gaps and blanks. You use other words and talk in curves and arcs for the worst...

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as he would have wanted some good angel to speak to his...

Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things.

Ujanja wote ulimwisha Murphy. Ilimbidi kutoboa siri ili adui asizidi kumuumiza. Alilaumu mno kufa wakati alishakula ng’ombe mzima. Alifikiri Mogens na Yehuda walishauwawa kulingana na hasira nyingi za magaidi. Walihakikisha hawafanyi makosa hata kidogo. Alivyomaliza...

Everything that happens to us, everything that we say or hear, everything that we see with our own eyes or we articulate with our tongue, everything that enters through our ears, everything we are witness...

Oh, my father, such a difficult man.His world turned on his axis.From “The Father Tamer” in BREATHE IN

All thoughts, secret or spoken, belong in a coffee table book written in Braille, so you can really feel the emotions.

Entre as recordações de cada pessoa, há coisas que ela não conta para qualquer um, somente para os amigos. Há também aquelas que ela não conta nem para os amigos, somente para sim mesma, e...

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

Can I possibly be a good writer if I’m not healed form the story I’m telling? Will I be able to go deep enough if people find out the truth?

Secrets are lies by another name.

Sharing secrets is the way in which women tie themselves together, for it reveals complicity and trust. Holding secrets shows trustworthiness and a sort of quite defiance. It is a natural thing for a female...

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

He’d kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: ‘My worth is my sexuality. I’m dirty and shameful. I have no right to my...

I was beginning to agree with the thesis that some truths were better off dead.And buried.

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and...

The thing you let Die within when you are Alive, will be carried with your Soul after Death.

But some secrets are too delicious not to share.

But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is...

Magdalena doesn’t ask what Rebecka is doing at the hospital. That’s how Rebecka realizes that Magdalena knows. It’s the things you don’t say. That’s what always gives a person away.

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.

are a luxury we can no longer afford.

When I was a teen, I liked to hang out around popular girls, I thought they had some magic, secrets that only they knew and I wanted to learn it… Though pretty soon I realized…...

A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of mind.

That’s sad, Finch. You should get out more,” I said, stopping at the cafeteria entrance.

There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or strange or idealistic or desperate or whimsical or hungry or sad they had...

Secrets are sexual pleasure, for they taunt your mind in the shadows like piercing arrows hit metal.

There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is...

Many more villagers, who have seen an elephant for the first time in their lives, give absurd exaggerations regarding his size, weight, and height. One of them describes him as ‘a fundament!’. Another, elaborating, alludes...

Life is made of moments. and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact. Skipping class in favor of a taste of freedom, picking a prom dress because of the way it...

That’s the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

I was alone in this discovery because it was my secret, my private exploration.

The victims of homicide are the only ones who carry the true secrets of humanity to the grave. The ones only God knows