Secret Quotes

This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you.

Beth Revis
- Alone
- Secret
- Touch
The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

Edmund Gosse
- Secret
- Fiction
- Novelty

Once I had started, I discovered the secret pleasure of writing a novel. It's such an immersive, deep commitment. With short stories, you're continually having to start again from scratch, but with a novel you only need one good idea every few years.

Debra Dean
Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

Beatrix Campbell
Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

Charles Brent
- Thinking
- Prayer
- Judgment
Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.

Joseph Heller
- Kind
- Fall
- Spirit
The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

Sherman Alexie
- World
- House
- Beautiful
Jesus, he meets you where you are. Jesus, he heals your secret scars.

Wayne Watson
- Secret
- Scar