I don't care about risk to me," he hissed, leaning forward across the table. "I care about what happens to you! Dammit, I'm practically indestructible. Let me go. You stay behind. " "Yes," Clary said, "Jace won't find that odd at all. You can just tell him you've always been secretly in love with him and you can't stand being parted.
I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we could really be amazing if only given a chance. That we could all be loved one day. You can always think of yourself as being transcendent or heroic. I think we all are.
You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.
I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.
The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
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 and all that, i mean endlessly, i've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?
By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
You see, the difference is the Republicans' hatred of Obama is based on a paranoid feeling about what he might do, what he's thinking, what he secretly wants to change. Anger with Bush was based on what he actually did. What Bush was thinking didn't matter. Because he wasn't.
Let yourself be the person you've secretly always wanted to be
I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.
The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful.
Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.
While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.
I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger. . . secretly, in my room.
He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.
Are there other people who, when watching a documentary set in a prison, secretly think, as I have, 'Wish I had all that time to read'?
The Duke of Clarence. . . a prisoner in the Tower, was secretly put to death and drowned in a barrel of Malmesey wine.