"Open Secrets" Quotes

The past is not just the past, it is a prism through which the subject filters her own changing self-image.

The important fact was that she was being kept, by somebody, safe from everything she had been afraid of.

It was a foolish thing to say, but words are the way people think, or some people anyway, and she wanted to understand herself.

To have a life, or to have a story?

Nothing is ever lost. Not permanently.

All lives are interesting, if you make them so.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out and taken yours.

She learned to live with the pain. Or perhaps it was the pain that learned to live with her.

There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with, for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house.

There is a limit to what you can bear, and when the limit is reached, you must make a change.