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Turner's openness is starting to become more and more appealing to me. At least I know what I'm getting with him. And I still need to tell him about Dax's kiss. That, and his proposition. I haven't had even a single second to get him alone since, but the secret is burning a hole in my pocket. I need it gone. It's like I'm allergic to the fuckers now.
— C.M. Stunich, Bad Day
We all have our secrets
—  some people like to hide it and some just don’t like to reveal.
Sunlight on orchids Lightning on water Twilight calls your name I have searched for you for centuries I am the woman who fell in love by accident- Virtual love- who would have thought, is it even possible? ( I believe so ) I raise my white flag and listen for your echo in my dreams I'm walking backwards to find you in my past I'm entangled in your fate~ ~Lady A~
— Ladyaslan
We’d never talked about his parents, like he was some underwater Peter Pan.
— Katherine McIntyre, By the Sea
An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. I learned that. This kind of story, this kind of things kept secrets -they have the power to keep your head in forever, and most of all for yourself.
— Deb Caletti, Stay
The secret is in realizing your internal gifts and then setting them free.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
All of us have secrets in our lives. We’re keepers or keptfrom, players or played. Secrets and cockroaches — that’s what will be left at the end of it all.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
Eleanor should never have told them about Park's house, but she'd been dying to tell somebody. (This was how people ended up in jail after committing the perfect crime.)
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
I have to ask, sir...Why does it have to be done like this?"Vetinari smiled. "Can you keep a secret, Mister Lipwig?""Oh, yes, sir. I've kept lots.""Capital. And the point is, so can I. You do not need to know.
— Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam
An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your side.
— Sara Sheridan
A cat’s secrets run so deep that even the cat itself is often unaware. Their mysteries are as natural as whiskers.
— Wendy Beck, 9th Life
Secrets have a cost, they are not for free.
— the amazing spiderman
Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.
— Eiji Yoshikawa, Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan
For most secrets are kept by these: the darkness, the silence, and the cat.
— Wendy Beck, 9th Life
Victoria's got her secrets. Hey, so do I!
— Si Robertson
Dragons weep, Shadows leaps, King sleeps. Dragon takes, Shadows breaks, King wakes.
— Megan Hietala
easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret.
— Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked
It's naive to assume that another person can fulfill you, or save you, if the two things are, in fact, different, and I have never felt that way with Colin. I simply believe that he fulfills an important part of me, and that Robert fulfilled another equally important part of me. The part of me Robert fulfilled is a part which I imagine Colin, even now, doesn't know exists. It is the part of me that can destroy as easily as it loves. It is the part of me that feels safest and most at home behind closed doors, in a dark bedroom, that believes that the only truth lies in the secrets we keep from each other.
— Andrew Porter, The Theory of Light and Matter
Rather, that rigidity had simply been given sporadic spots of wrath, coupled with the sprinkling of secrets, and placed in a cold corner to slowly stew and starve––leaving it no choice but to eventually break through with blooms of fury. And on the night of Cornelius’s arrival, it at long last broke through.
— Katlyn Charlesworth, Where Men Sit
Yes, I just…” Should I be honest and sound like a complete loser? Oh why the hell not? “I have not had a kiss like that in a while.” I licked my lips.He looked me dead in the eye. “Good.” A wave of silence crashed over us. I didn’t know what to say to that. “Well, I better get going. See you soon?”I nodded dumbly. “Mmm-hmm.” He smiled and began to walk away. I couldn’t just let him go! “Declan!”He turned. “Yes, Cake?”Come on, brain! Think of something! “What should I wear? I mean, what kind of place is Shellshock?” Yes, yes, that was fine… damage averted.“California casual.”“Oh, ok.” I think I knew what that meant. Spend three hours getting ready to make it look like you just threw any-ol’-thing on. “Have a nice night.”He flicked his head my way. “You too.” Then he was gone.And then I was sad.It was ridiculous. Preposterous, even. I was going to have to come clean about the ring- eventually. I hoped he didn’t bring it up because I would probably tell the poor guy my life story to get to why the ring he bought meant so much to me.
— Nicole Castro, Winner's Curse
Every day it got swept. All of the dirt each piece of dust and even the tiniest bread crumb of secret midnight snacks. It lay under that rug.Years went by nobody noticed it’s more defeated crumbled appearance with all the misshaped lumps and bumps. Eventually a boy drips and falls over it people are so surprised and nobody knows what why or how it could have happened. Not even the lady with the sweeping brush.
— Donal O'Callaghan
the abstract reveals after a second
— Jinzo Sloatch
Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.
— Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret
If you want to know the outcome of a game before the game has even started, you need to control each side.
— David Icke, Children of the Matrix
There comes a time in a man's life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so dirty that he knows he never will get rid of it. (Shakespeare knew this and tried to say it, but he said it just as badly as anyone ever said it. 'All the perfumes of Arabia' makes you think of all the perfumes of Arabia and nothing more. It is the trouble with all metaphors where human behavior is concerned. People are not ships, chess men, flowers, race horses, oil paintings, bottles of champagne, excrement, musical instruments or anything else but people. Metaphors are all right to give you an idea.)
— John O'Hara, BUtterfield 8
You wanted to belong. The problem was, no matter how well you kept your secret, the very fact of having one was enough to separate you from everyone else.
— Lisa Kleypas, Rainshadow Road
If you don't talk about it, it didn't happen.
— James Rollins, Altar of Eden
With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.
— Frederick Buechner
For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.
— George Orwell, 1984
Secrets,” Kohler finally said, “are a luxury we can no longer afford.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
If you didn't want to know things, you didn't have to know them. Things didn't become facts until someone actually spoke them. Until then, you could just go on acting just the way you had been acting and even if you suspected there was something that would change everything, you didn't have to acknowledge it; you didn't have to let it in.
— Corinne Demas, Returning to Shore
Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.
— Winston S. Churchill
No duh, Susan said. You are like a walking vault of things you don't tell people. People who have secrets should pay you to hold on to them for them. You could be like a secret bank.
— Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice
I can’t tell you the things I know,” I repeated.	“Why not?”	“They aren’t my secrets to tell.
— Embee, Tess Embers
In Lakefield View, everybody has a secret. Behind every smile lies a dark story. Behind every hello is a hidden goodbye.
— Gavin Hetherington, Remnants of the Damned
A secret is a truth, hiding behind a mouth.
— Ahmad Albayati
Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?
— David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.
— Courtney Milan, Unraveled
Secrets, once spoken, have a way of running away from you. They cannot be gathered in again.
— Laura Lam, Pantomime
There are some secrets so toxic you can’t share. Especially if you love who it is you’d have to share with.
— Joyce Carol Oates, Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You
Secrets have an unfortunate way of spreading far beyond those they were intended for.
— Haley Fisher, Rising Calm
God, she looked like an angel from this angle as she sat in the sunlight that streamed in from a nearby open window. I was hoping with all my heart that what I was about to tell her, wouldn’t make this angel fall.
— Angela Richardson, All the Pieces
You lying sneak.""All this time pretending to be a wolfblood's best friend, then spying on us.""You don't understand. I did it to protect ya. When you secret gets out, i'll have the evidence to prove that you're not evil
— Debbie Moon
His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased.
— Kristen Iversen, Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
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?
— Lori Lesko
Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.
— William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Secrets can eat you alive. They break down your soul. It's better to have them in the open
— Sara Shepard
There are some secrets darker than witchcraft." - Aunt Dora
— April Aasheim, The Witches of Dark Root
My body was a Pandora’s box of aches and pains. When Grandpa died all the ailments came jumping out. I was forever twitching and shaking. I had a persistent sore throat and had difficulty swallowing except when I was taking nips from my illicit cocktail. I was constantly constipated, holding everything in — a disorder that had started when I was two years old. It burned when I passed urine, and my migraines were so severe it felt on occasions as if I were going blind.
— Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
But nothing will help quite so much as just keeping quiet, talking with other people as little as possible, with yourself as much as possible. For conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. Nobody will keep the things he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more. Neither will anyone who has failed to keep a story to himself keep the name of his informant to himself. Every person without exception has someone to whom he confides everything that is confided to himself. Even supposing he puts some guard in his garrulous tongue and is content with a single pair of ears, he will still be the creator of a host of later listeners – such is the way in which what was but a little while before a secret becomes common rumor.
— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don’t count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.
— Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.
— Alethea Kontis, Enchanted
I was alone in this discovery because it was my secret, my private exploration.
— Paloma Beck, Hold My Hand
The best way to keep a secret is to forget about it.
— Bhen
There are no such things as secrets only truths that have yet to be revealed.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
You are a man with secrets...and I plan to know them all.
— Pauline Creeden, Armored Hearts
Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing [as a nice safe history].
— Kate Morton, The House at Riverton
In the back of his mind, he had always wondered why — why they harbored such resentment for him. Now he had the answer, and he felt sick. He felt the bottom dropping out.
— Tracy Winegar, Good Ground
Oh, my father, such a difficult man.His world turned on his axis.From "The Father Tamer" in BREATHE IN
— Eileen Granfors
I guess that’s the way secrets are. They’re only heavy when you’re holding them. As soon as you let go, the significance of keeping those secrets hidden blows away and everything falls into place.
— Cassia Leo, Relentless
Some things in life are worth waiting for.
— Danielle Steel
Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.
— Suzanne Palmieri, The Witch of Little Italy
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.
— Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife
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...
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.
— Adam Phillips, On Balance
What happens in the dark should not be brought to light.
— Habeeb Akande
It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone's existence, there is probably a very specific, obvious reason for it, and the reason you're avoiding confronting it directly is that it's something you don't want to know.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
Will you promise to keep this to yourself, to not tell anyone of what we are?” By his words you’d think he was giving me a choice. Like I could say,no deal, honey bunch, I’m off to shout your secret from the rooftops, and he’d be like, oh no please don’t do that. Inreality, he’d have to kill me.
— L.H. Cosway, Tegan's Blood
Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.
— Christa Wolf, City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud
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 and eventually began to be listened to and believed. Ritual abuse survivors, when they try to speak out about their experiences, face denial and disbelief from society and often fear for their lives from the abusers.
— Laurie Matthew, Who Dares Wins
That’s literally one of those things where if I tell you I have to kill you. A witch’s wand is a powerful tool and could be disastrous if it fell into the wrong hands.
— Amanda Kelly, Shifting Shadows
What most people want to keep under wraps (from reporters) is trivial: petty jealousies, professional feuds, etc. By contrast, most of the things they have thought about most seriously all their lives they are perfectly winning to uncover.
— Thomas Boswell, How Life Imitates the World Series
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 that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.
— Lemony Snicket, Who Could That Be at This Hour?
No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.
— Lia Habel, Dearly, Departed
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.
— E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Be careful who you tell your secrets to because when situations change... sometimes, so do people.
— Gwen Ro
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep
— Edgar Watson Howe
...our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I'm an expert at finding out secrets, but keeping them- especially a secret of this magnitude - is something else.
— Hannah Harrington, Speechless
Keeping secrets isn't my specialty.
— Hannah Harrington, Speechless
When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.
— Tess Gerritsen, Last to Die
If you tell anyone what I just told you, I’ll call the Mob. I know some of them, you know.” “Bullshit.” I shrugged. “Believe what you want.” Finch eyed me suspiciously, and then smiled. “You are officially the coolest person I know.” “That’s sad, Finch. You should get out more,” I said, stopping at the cafeteria entrance.
— Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster
We carry secrets under our skin like shrapnel. Our surface wounds heal, but the damage festers underneath while we worry what tiny pieces will work their way to the surface for the world to see.
— Stephanie Lawton, Shrapnel
The real secrets are not the ones I tell.
— Mason Cooley
This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died.
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.
— Sue Miller, While I Was Gone
No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave.
— Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow
Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things.
— Augusta Scattergood, Glory Be
I hope to turn my reader into the quiet person in the corner who, even when no one is telling them anything, sees everything.
— damali ayo
What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered...
— Jocelyn  Murray, The Gilded Mirror: Constantinople
My name is Cammie!” I didn’t think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that might have gone off. I just snapped, “How did you know about Boston? Why are you working with Mr. Solomon now? Are you my friend or are you my enemy, Zach? Or, wait, let me guess, you can’t tell me.
— Ally Carter
If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know.""I know," Klause said."I know you know," Violet said
— Lemony Snicket, The Reptile Room
They didn't just live with secrets. Secrecy surrounded their entire lives.
— Anthony Horowitz, Scorpia Rising
I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the bottom of the laundry bag, or big things, like the best way to get a boy to chase you is to ignore him, or medium things, like if you cut an onion under running water your eyes won't sting, and if you wash your fingers afterwards with lemon-juice they won't stink.I used to want to know all the secrets, and every time I learned one, I felt like I'd taken--a step. On a journey. To a place. A destination: to be the kind of person who knew all this stuff, the way everyone around me seemed to know all this stuff. I thought that once I knew enough secrets, I'd be like them.
— Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
— Bryant McGill
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 to the term ‘firmament,’ because of the elephant’s hugeness. He felt as though the sky was obliterated from his vision. The last to be interviewed by the local TV station swears that he sensed the world lean forward as the elephant came closer and tilt backwards as the beast walked away.This large mammal ambles purposefully. He pays no heed to the crowded silence following him in stealthy consciousness. One of the villagers, a woman often suspected of dabbling in witchcraft, talks of her inspired theory: that this was no elephant, more like a human on a holy mission of avenging justice. Two other witnesses, neither having had any contact with the woman, speak in substantiation of the woman’s claims, giving as evidence the observation that the elephant turned around when someone said something in Somali. Several villagers will not comment, afraid of a fitting retribution should they do so.
— Nuruddin Farah
In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories
— Sol Stein, How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them
It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What are we going to do, Ayden?" she whispered, glaring up at me."I don't know," I confessed. "But how about we burn that bridge when we get there?""I thought it was 'cross' that bridge?"I lightly poked her in the eye and she laughed. "No. We're burning bridges. Crossing is so overrated." I smiled and touched the corner of her eyes, captivated by the iridescent blues."I think I like the sound of that," she whispered."Yeah?""Yeah.
— Nadège Richards, Burning Bridges
Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.
— Richard Peck, Secrets at Sea
...how time packs new years over the old ones but how those old years are still in there, like the earliest, tightest rings centering a tree, the most hidden, enclosed in darkness and shielded from weather. But then a saw screams in and the tree topples and the circles are stricken by the sun and the sap glistens and the stump is laid open for the world to see.
— Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter Crooked Letter
There are thousands of codes in the Torah which are decoded by the Talmud.
— H.W. Charles
Sometimes it’s only in the ecstasy of unrepressed movement that we may enter the stillness of our authentic selves. In such sacred moments, the world seems to be in step. This is why the idea of finding love across the dance floor endure — symbolizing that, when we know the true rhythm of our heart, we know the other.
— Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
How to recognize what is real? To know the layers and depths of oneself, to know how to open, to know how to fill a capacious hold-all, to know one’s own quirks and nervous twitches, cravings and transparencies, and, above all the force, literally the force, of events, connections, the wild calm in every thing. 
— Shawna Lemay
The power of getting to know one another is so immense, eclipsed only by first getting to know ourselves.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses.
— Kingsley George
In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we’ve lived with the longest, we still don’t know very well—ourselves.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed herself a coarse cassock that she simply put over her and without further difficulties resolved the problem of dress, without taking away the feeling of being naked, which according to her lights was the only decent way to be when at home.
— Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what's is so painful you can't sense your powers leaving you. It's hard for an old man to ensure such blows!
— Ivan Turgenev, Home of the Gentry
Your spiritual path isn't always just something you find, you started it the moment you took your first breath, and ever since you're been getting closer and closer to remembering who you truly are!
— Martin R. Lemieux
Cause nobody's the slightest idea who we are, or who we were, not even we ourselves - except, that is, in the glimmer of a moment of fair business between strangers, or the nod of knowing and agreement between friends. Other than these, we go out anonymous into the insect air and all we are is the dust of colour, brief engineering of wings towards a glint of light on a blade of grass or a leaf in a summer dark.Azide Smith, How to be Both
— Zadie Smith
One who knows One, knows Everyone
— Syed Sharukh
Never take advise from any one. Only you know what is best for you. Never give advise to any one. You only know what is best for you
— Prabhukrishna M
Where you've been or haven't been does not make you who you are." -Faolan
— Brittany L. Engels, Kaptito Kero
Connecting with yourself and knowing yourself is a monumental and life changing event.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
I look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.
— Fernando Pessoa
We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.
— Sharon Lee, Necessity's Child
Find comfort in questioning yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Even the people who once fought for others tend to get weak and eventually "give up" and lose interest in the worth of fighting any longer.
— Osjusn CC
I don't know and I don't care anymore. I was supposed to have my way for once, just once in my life. I did everything right and I got nothing for it.I want to kill them all. no, better yet, I want to die. No, even bettter than that: I want to kill them all then die.
— Barry Lyga, The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
The source for any mental trauma is never other person, but its your own MIND psyching YOU into believing that you're vulnerable at first, thereby gradually increasing the intensity of suffering as it justifies through illusionary reasons - all thanks to the unconscious recess, as falsity forms is very foundation with fabrication as prime drivers, thus pushing one into a life-negative state with violent mood swings followed by depression and suicidal tendencies! Beware of your MIND, for it's not YOU!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
I’ve given up already in life but something or someone keep pushing me to keep going.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
The source for any mental trauma is never the other person, but its your own MIND psyching YOU into believing that you're vulnerable at first, thereby gradually increasing the intensity of suffering as it justifies through illusionary reasons as falsity forms its very foundation with fabrication as prime element - all thanks to the unconscious recess, thus driving one into a life-negative state with violent mood swings followed by depression and onset of suicidal tendencies! Beware of your MIND, for it's not YOU!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
But first you have to fight, to try other ways. If your life displeases you, my lad, try to change it. Don't give in to defeat so easily. Death is the only sure defeat. It is the end of everything.
— Félix J. Palma, The Map of the Sky
Maybe I should drown myself before I freeze to death?
— Mark A. Cooper, The Edelweiss Express
You have no right to kill others. Then how can you have a right to kill yourself?
— Preeti Shenoy, Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny
Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off forever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
A broken shoelace can strangle me.
— Brian Spellman, If the mind fits, shrink it
Sometimes you feel fragile for a few days. Don't let the PaperTigers scare you
—  you will bounce back & be brave again.From book: stuff i think aboutby sondra faye
Sons of suicides seldom do well. Characteristically, they find life lacking a certain zing. They tend to feel more rootless than most, even in a notoriously rootless nation. They are squeamishly incurious about the past and numbly certain about the future to this grisly extent: they suspect that they, too, will kill themselves.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Using Pain To Relieve Pain. Doesn't Make Much Sense. But It Works.
— Lupe Hernandez
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
— Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.
— Danny Wallace, Yes Man
The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.
— Danny Wallace, Yes Man
For too long, information, opportunities, and resources have been constraints, they need to be the bridges.
— Sharad Vivek Sagar
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.
— Lee Iacocca
All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game
Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift.
— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.
— B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Opportunities are visible to those who are looking for them
— Mayur Ramgir
Life only gives opportunities, not offers
— Vignesh. S
But here's the rub: looking across silos for opportunities to improve capabilities is one thing; creating a vision for how to seize those opportunities as another. Communicating that vision effectively is harder still. But the real work, the deepest work, is in the deciding to stick your neck out in the first place.
— Martha Heller, Be the Business: CIOs in the New Eras of IT
When you are stuck in the same routine for months, you stop seeing new opportunities.
— Dhaval Gajera, MAKE IT HAPPEN: with 30 greatest life lessons
God always drops love like rainfall and if you walk in it, you shall always be refreshed by it in so far as it continues to shower. Note however that you may never be able to quench your test no matter how long you shall keep standing in the rains whilst you keep your lips closed.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Life depends on time and he who least values time and what to really do with his time will get to the end of the time in his lifetime only to ponder over the times he had in his life! Remember always
—  your lifetime: your life has been timed!
You can't hate your best friend for taking opportunities he'd been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn't it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.
— Craig Davidson, Cataract City
If you can't open it, it's not your door. So, don't force it.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
Anything can happen at anytime. Safety is not guaranteed. There's more to life than being alive.
— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
Go to where you do not know what you do not know. That is where you will find all your opportunities.
— Jeffrey Fry
The next time someone says, ‘The odds are against you,’ remember: If you don’t try, you forfeit the opportunity.
— Frank Sonnenberg, BookSmart: Hundreds of real-world lessons for success and happiness
God holds key to open all doors.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every challenge that comes your way is an opportunity for you to do something remarkable.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
Few would argue that a simpler consciousness, no matter how harmonious, is preferable to a more complex one. While we might admire the serenity of the lion in repose, the tribesman’s untroubled acceptance of his fate, or the child’s wholehearted involvement in the present, they cannot offer a model for resolving our predicament. The order based on innocence is now beyond our grasp. Once the fruit is plucked from the tree of knowledge, the way back to Eden is barred forever.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
No noble opportunity is small. Mind small opportunities with noble traits, though they may seem quite uncanny at first sight; in the mind, you shall wonder!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Asking questions opens up new doors, new opportunities, and new ideas. It helps you think, create, and discover.
— Farshad Asl, The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity
You cannot influence minds by making them feel comfortable. Influence should provoke the comfortable lifestyle into an uncomfortable situation where opportunities lie.
— Oscar Bimpong
Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds...
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.
— I.M. Pei
Don’t stop searching for opportunities until opportunities find you.
— Gift Gugu Mona
ACN is given a Part time opportunity to all to invest money in various products and generate money from it. This is a platform for generating money by the legal terms and a help center for the people.
— Wealth Mentoring
We live in a world of paradox: the very opportunities some pilgrims of life wish to get to make great and awesome exploits and feel accomplished and comfortable, others get and they least see what they have and only abuse what they have!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
One thing I learned there on that beautiful front porch was if I wanted to be successful, if I wanted to do important work one day, I would have to increase my capacity. I had to learn to manage disappointment. I needed to learn how to make the most out of those “opportunities” Chip seemed to keep finding.
— Joanna Gaines, The Magnolia Story
My life held endless prospects, and I could've lived it so many different ways.
— Anna Jarzab, Tether
I climb fences when i got fences to climb.
— John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
The cock does not just crow! It crows for a reason. Do not just concentrate on the cock crowing and mind the reason why it crows
—  the time !
Sometimes the best gifts are the ones you can't get on your own.
— Shannon L. Alder
Words do not solve problems, actions do.
— Murad S. Shah
Wake ... wake up ... stand up,opportunity does not wait for the lazy
— Mohammed Sekouty
Don’t lose good opportunities waiting for better opportunities
— Mohit Bansal
The opportunities that can be envisioned then created are endless.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
Other opportunities arise from time to time that almost don't accord with the overall situation, opportunities whereby a word, a glance, a sigh of trust may achieve more than a lifetime of exhausting endeavour.
— Franz Kafka, The Castle
Difficult times give an opportunity to understand, who is your good friend and who is just a friend.
— Sukant Ratnakar, Rum Beer Cocktail
Don't be discouraged. When one door closes, you can find alternative open door.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There are hidden opportunities for each person everywhere and in everything, every day!
— Sunday Adelaja
The temptation to spend money increases as a person’s opportunities increase.
— Sunday Adelaja
Work gives us access and opportunities.
— Sunday Adelaja
Our young men and women must be taught that through hard work, they can create opportunities for themselves and others.
— Sunday Adelaja
When we rely on our own strength, God’s opportunities become inaccessible to us.
— Sunday Adelaja
Two people don't see same event as opportunity. When one see it a problem
—  other look to capitalize it for optimum benefit
Sharks don’t eat seafood because they like it, but because chicken can’t swim.
— Michael J. Sullivan
Every child deserves good parents and a beautiful world full of opportunities and possibilities.
The cheapest route to a new opportunity is conversation.
— Mario L Castellanos
Problems, Troubles, Difficulty, Barrier, Hurdle, Stumbling Block, Termination, Set Backs, Obstacles are the Doors to Opportunities." Make a use of it:-)
— Sivaprakash Sidhu Sivaprakash G Sivaprakash Gopal, sivaprakash sidhu, sivaprakash, sivaprakash, sidh
When we begin to see our differences as opportunities rather than threats, then we can work together.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
As the economy is shifting, you need to have legitimate and creative sources of extra income. There are opportunities available that people have been using for years now.
— Franklin Gillette, How to Make Extra Money at Home Right Now
Challenges and opportunities. It feels good doing the impossible.
— Sherman Morris
Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after day of their fuddled little lives, they would stagger at the sheer industry and prodigality of His efforts. Conversely, if they ever gained a glimpse of how their ordinary actions actually effect and shape things not only under time but without, the very vast weight of that would almost certainly end in their becoming humble.
— Geoffrey Wood
Be strong and courageous to take risks.Without trying and taking risks, you will miss great opportunities in life.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
If you want more opportunities you have to become an opportunity for others. As you advance yourself your opportunities advance too.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Want and belief in lack shrink your opportunities.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
In all areas of your life, look for the multiplier opportunities where you can go a little further, push yourself a little harder, last a little longer, prepare a little better, and deliver a little bit more. Where can you do better and more than expected? When can you do the totally unexpected? Find as many opportunities for 'WOW,' and the level and speed of your accomplishments will astonish you... and everyone else around you.
— Darren Hardy, The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
Opportunity will always meet you exactly where you stand.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Every insult is an opportunity.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many great opportunities in life.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
If I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many opportunities in life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you reframe problems as projects or opportunities, they will cease to bother you and begin to stimulate you.
— Alan Cohen
Everyday is the same day, except its reward and opportunities.
— Abed Rahmani
Being told you are wrong or insulted, gives you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Being insulted offers you an opportunity to practice decency and having a non-response internally.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Even hell will give you an incentive not to reach for heaven.
— Garry Crystal, And When the Arguing's Over...
Life is about changes and opportunities. We don’t always get a perfect picture.
— Ellen J. Barrier
One has various things in the back of one's mind. Occasionally an opportunity presents itself to bring one forward. Most of these opportunities come to nothing. Once in a very great while one -- or two -- do come to something.
— Robin McKinley, Pegasus
You do not have opportunities for influence by accident. God-given opportunities bring God-intended responsibilities. Do all the good you can wherever God puts you. Apply this to your situation among family members, your neighbors, and your coworkers.
— Layton Talbert
Cash is king. No matter how many good opportunities come your way, do not invest all your cash. If you run out of reserves, the smallest or foolish of things may bring you down. Companies with millions in assets have gone bankrupt because they cannot make a $25,000 payment.
— Mauricio Chaves Mesén, 12 Laws of Great Entrepreneurs
Everyone dies, but does everyone really live?
— Johan Coetzer
I've had plentiful opportunities for great things. Just didn't open my eyes.
— Johan Coetzer
Sometimes, we try to run so fast that we can’t see the dangers until we have them before us. We don’t see the tiger hiding in the trees until it is about to eat us. Or we run pass the next opportunity without paying attention.
— Mauricio Chaves Mesén, 12 Laws of Great Entrepreneurs
Life is full of opportunities although there are hurdles that needs to be overcome.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Opportunities are like drops of rain…you have to welcome them, harvest them and make them turn around. If you carry an umbrella all the time, you will miss the fun of soaking in their grandeur. They make you the person you would like to be, one day!
— Balroop Singh
today's pain is yesterdays latent gain we did not take
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
The doors will be opened to those who are bold enough to knock.
— Tony Gaskins
Rename your “To-Do” list to your “Opportunities” list. Each day is a treasure chest filled with limitless opportunities
—  take joy in checking many off your list.
God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today -- not tomorrow.
— Laura Story, What if Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops
I have been blessed with luck, talent and opportunities, now it is my duty to add the hardworking element.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.
— Mark      Miller, The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow
Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again.
— James Bryce
Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
My success has nothing to do with opportunities or luck
—  I just keep doing things until it is done.
Being passionately curious about things give us the desire to want to learn, to explore and to seek opportunities to set goals and accomplish great things. It allows us to dream.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Opportunities come and they are manifested too
—  through the exercise of Will...
A clear personal brand communicates what you have to offer and attracts desirable opportunities.
— Don Maruska, Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life
What was on the other side?"Donna said, "He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it.""He... never went through it?""That’s why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment; he never thought of going through it, he just admired the doorway and then later he couldn’t see it at all and it was too late. It opened for him a few days and then it was closed and gone forever.
— Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
Today you will have countless opportunities to take action towards any dream or goal you've ever had. No matter how long you’ve waited, it’s never too late. Let today be the day you give life to your dreams and goals. Don't throw away another day!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I beg you to exercise wisdom and restraint and remember that not all opportunities are created equal. Some are nothing but steps leading down toward catastrophe.
— Sherry Thomas, Tempting the Bride
Information is Key to Opportunities, So Pick Up a Book!
— Brenda Johnson Padgitt
The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)
— Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
I would have told you earlier, but as it was your birthday . . . What do you give the man who has everything? I thought I’d give you . . . me.”He puts the keychain down on the bedside table and snuggles in beside me, pulling me into his arms against his chest so that we’re spooning.“It’s perfect. Like you.
— E.L. James, Fifty Shades Darker
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.
— Gena Showalter, The Darkest Night
we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.
— Cora Carmack, Faking It
The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
I don't want you to change, Bridgette. I'm not in love with who you could be, or who you used to be, or who the world says you should be. I'm in love with you. Right now. Just like this.
— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Not
When I told you I didn't want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy
— Stephenie Meyer, New Moon
It was scary to think of happily ever after. It was scary to think about trusting someone enough to give him your heart now, hoping he wouldn't break it later.
— Rachel Hawthorne
She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag, and right then and there, he fell in love."-Animal Magnetism
— Jill Shalvis
No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the debt.
— Tessa Dare, Romancing the Duke
The collar had restrained his winds but not killed them. They uncoiled from behind the shadows, ready to surround her, to lift her up, to carry her away with only Ariel’s silk-clad arms wrapped about her to keep her from fa
— Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars
This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion,and it wasn’t wicked.It was love, and it was divine.
— Julia Quinn, When He Was Wicked
Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.
— Jayne Ann Krentz
She’s drunk dialing contractors ” Chloe said to Tara. “Someone should stop her.
— Jill Shalvis, Simply Irresistible
They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years
— Nicholas Sparks, The Best of Me
The water was lapping around my waist by the time Ivy and Gabriel found me. I was shivering, but I hardly noticed. I didn't move or speak, not even when Gabriel lifted me out of the water and carried me back to our house. Ivy helped me into the shower, and came to help me out half an hour later when I'd forgotten where I was and just stood under the pounding water. Gabriel bought me some dinner, but I couldn't eat it. I sat on my bed, staring into space and doing nothing but thinking of Xavier and trying not to think of him at the same time. The separation made me realize just how safe I felt with him. I craved his touch, his smell, even the awareness that he was nearby. But now he felt miles away, and I couldn't reach him, and that knowledge made me feel ready to crumble, to cease to exist.
— Alexandra Adornetto
...every vertebrae on his back was a prayer bead under my hands.
— Amy Lane, Racing for the Sun