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“The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we b...”
“People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.”
“Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and...”
“What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing.”
“Secrets are truths that show what we’ve been through—what we’ve survived.”
“Nearly everyone has had a box of secret pain, shared with no one.”
