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#1

“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
― Criss Jami

tags: aggravation, concealment, confusion, contemplation, dishonesty, hardcore, honesty, lie, lying, never, pain, provoke, secrecy, secrets, thinkers, thought, torture, truth

981 likes

#2

“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

tags: secrets

692 likes

#3

“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: secrets

492 likes

#4

“I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

tags: compassion, deciet, hate, interview-with-the-vampire, lestat, lie, lies, love, lovers, lying, secret, secrets, truth, vampire, vampires

431 likes

#5

“I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

tags: armor, secrets

323 likes

#6

“Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.”
― Fiona Apple

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#7

“Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.”
― Daisy Whitney, When You Were Here

tags: inspirational, love, second-chances, secrets

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#8

“He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Lady With the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904

tags: secrets

100 likes

#9

“Nothing Stays Secret Forever”
― Jennifer R. Hubbard

tags: secrets

36 likes

#10

“It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.”
― Charlotte Featherstone, Addicted

tags: betrayal, lindsay, lost-love, love, yearning

485 likes

#11

“So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.”
― Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed

tags: escapism, fear, mistrust

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#12

“Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle.”
― Emily Thorne

tags: dark, disease, doubt, mistrust, perceptions, revenge, revenge-tv-series, suspicions

32 likes

#13

“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: abuse, abusive, bad-parenting, brainwashing, broken-home, childhood, childhood-memories, didn-t-mean-it, divorce, emotional-abuse, false-beliefs, family, father, harm, heartbreak, heartbroken, hurt, indoctrination, limitations, limits, love-lost, loyalty, mental-abuse, mother, parenthood, parents, parents-and-children, psychological-abuse, relationships, scars

242 likes

#14

“I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley

tags: father, son

44 likes

#15

“Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed.”
― Nathan Feuerstein (NF)

tags: music, nf, passion, rapper, raps

7 likes

#16

“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: evil, good, knowledge, power

1430 likes

#17

“They joined hands.
So the world ended.
And the next one began.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

tags: aelin-ashryver-galathynius, crown-prince-of-adarlan, dorian-havillard, king-of-adarlan, power, queen-of-terrasen

1155 likes

#18

“I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.”
― Jason Mraz

tags: confidence, inspirational, life, music, power, spiritual, truth, work

612 likes

#19

“He [Riptide] sighed. "I said, 'What are you doing all the way out here?' and you said, 'Hey, sparkling teeth, I totally love three of your claws but not the others, and I wish your nose was a herrig so I could eat it, and also your wings sound like sharks snoring.'"
Tsunami burst out laughing.”
― Tui T. Sutherland, The Lost Heir

tags: dragon, riptide, tsunami

201 likes

#20

“I do not want to know things, I want to understand things. I want to answer every question ever posed me. I want to leave no room for anyone to doubt me.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

tags: aro-ace-rep, asexuality, felicity-montague, feminist, inspirational, mackenzi-lee, powerful-woman, strong-woman

17 likes

#21

“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

tags: death, grief, grieving, loss, love, sadness

1689 likes

#22

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: grief, loss, recovery

4002 likes

#23

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

tags: grief, love

2568 likes

#24

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: grief, harry-potter, hurt, pain

2764 likes

#25

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”
― Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler

tags: grief, grieving

954 likes

#26

“To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.”
― Andrei Lankov

tags: emotional-abuse, emotional-neglect, mental-disorder-bias, mental-disorders, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, stigma, suffering, suffering-cruelty, suffering-quote, violence

88 likes

#27

“I was a very lonely child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a sense that if I deserved it, it would be there. There must be something I'd done which meant I didn't deserve it.”
― Carol Lee, To Die For

tags: anorexia, eating-disorder, emotional-neglect, lack-of-love, self-blame, starved, starving, unloved, unmet-needs

46 likes

#28

“If the abuser is a parent or caretaker, the abuse may be the most attention the child has had from that person. To the child, withholding attention can be a powerful form of coercion. Sexual molestation may be accompanied by physical expressions of affection that are sometimes the only affection the child receives.”
― Rick Moskovitz, Lost in the Mirror: An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder

tags: abuse-survivors, abusive-parent, abusive-parenting, abusive-parents, attachment-trauma, child-abusers, child-molestation, child-sexual-abuse, coercion, emotional-neglect, incest, incestusous, manipulativeness, psychological-abuse, survivors, withholding-attention

10 likes

#29

“It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

tags: adolescence, growing-up, growth, leaving, left-behind, youth

12 likes