Quotes About Revelation

Yes, but you usually aren't ... Well, I have to keep them covered or else you lose the power of speech

Have you ever turned over a stone just to watch the nasty things wriggling underneath?" "I think every child has." His mouth thinned into a cruel smile. "I am no longer a child. There's a baser word for what I like to do. Let us simply say that kicking over this particular stone amuses me." "Then let us hope you do not get stung.

She had stripped away her own illusions for him, and that was as seductive a thing as any woman could do.

Veronica." He had uttered my name a thousand times, but never before had it sounded like a prayer. "There are things I should tell you.

How dreadful to have millions of strangers know the intimate details of one's life, to pick over them like so many discarded bones from a banquet table, looking for the choicest bits of meat.

A bit of trouble with this? I'm having a goddamned nervous breakdown. The woman I love most in the world has—after five years of marriage—decided to finally tell me the truth about what she does. That's five years of lies. That's a shit-ton of lies.

One seldom finds something is one never actually looks for it. A Curious Beginning

People are secretive when they have secrets.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.

Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn't.

We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

A secret," he said. "A secret is the heaviest thing in the world.

We looked at each other and smiled like we just discovered something wonderful, maybe kissing itself, something no one else ever figured out. It seemed like ours, a terrific secret.

I learned something about truth—that truth has an urgency. It forces itself up sometimes, disregarding your need not to look, brought to the surface by that part of us that looks out for our own safety and well-being, if only we'd listen.

Never ask questions you don't want the answer to.

Writers are cut open on the page.

Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.

There is always a worthwhile price for discovery. Discover who you are. Know yourself.

By the river of forgetfulness, I found honesty.

The ultimate purpose of education is to learn how to reveal your own unique beauty.