Confession Quote by Emile Zola

Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that…

— Anonymous

...It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like that—whispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when you tell…

— Francesca Lia Block

It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and…

— Carson McCullers

“When they were young, they had only their secrets to give one another: confessions were currency, and divulgences were a form of intimacy. Withholding…

— Hanya Yanagihara

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

— John Irving

“They each had secrets they were keeping from the other; secrets they were keeping out of love.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

He held her close enough to kiss, close enough to whisper the most important secrets in the world, and he spoke to her as…

— Cassandra Clare

“Had they nothing else to say to one another? More serious communications were, to be sure, passing between their eyes. As they tried to…

— Gustave Flaubert

She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made…

— Cheryl Strayed

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other… or when they occasionally got together. And when they…

— John Irving

They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of…

— Jean M. Auel

“What he was doing was actually a hundred times worse. He was telling her that he loved her, something he hadn't mentioned and may…

— Alice Hoffman