Best Secretly Qoutes
411 Secretly quotes by 351 unique authors
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I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking…
— George Saunders
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For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now…
— Amy Tan
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Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.
— Jeanette Winterson
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She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn't secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so…
— Jonathan Franzen
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I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it…
— Richard Brautigan
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I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Besides, secretly, without knowing it herself, she had been waiting for a Beast to go to.
— Francesca Lia Block
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Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his…
— Virginia Woolf
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Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.
— Brian Jacques
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Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.
— K.J. Parker
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And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all,…
— Gail Carriger
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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for…
— Thomas Aquinas
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She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he…
— Jodi Picoult
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[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing…
— Obert Skye
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Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully…
— Martin Buber
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Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort…
— Donald Miller
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There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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Her heart felt as if it were breaking in her breast, bleeding and bleeding, young and fierce. From grief over the warm and ardent love…
— Sigrid Undset
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You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented…
— David Nicholls
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So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you…
— Brandon Sanderson
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Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific…
— Thomas Merton
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One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
— Nelson Mandela
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Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.
— Sri Chinmoy
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But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of…
— George Eliot
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