"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."

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Source : "Téa Obreht: 'I don't feel I've earned the Orange prize'" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

Tea Obreht

#Silence Quotes #Secret Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”
“Friends who love you and have warmth for your creative life are the very best suns in the world.”
“I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.”

Source : "Christopher and His Kind". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 306, 1976.
“It's fun making new skills for new characters.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.”
“A closed mouth gathers no foot.”
“When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.”
“Love me, that's all I ask of you...”

Source : "All I Ask Of You". Song by Charles Hart, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe, September 26, 1986.

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