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Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.

Storytelling is a dangerous vocation, for the fairies punish those who return to tell their secrets.
– Marina Warner

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  2. Nourish the body, nourish the soul. Punish the body, punish the soul. – ML Shanahan
  3. The moderns say we must not punish heretics. My only doubt is whether we have the right to punish anybody else. – GK Chesterton
  4. I do not punish my enemies with arrogance; I punish ,them, undoubtedly more subtle – with devoted respect. – Kristian Goldmund Aumann
  5. Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are. – Carmine Gallo
  6. Storytelling is among the oldest forms of communication. Storytelling is the commonality of all human beings, in allplaces, in all times. – Rives Collins
  7. Nothing unleashes curiosity in an audience like good storytelling. Nothing inspires storytelling, in turn, like the results of curiosity. – Brian Grazer
  8. Secrets…were cancers. Secrets festered. Secrets ate away at your innards, leaving behind nothing but a flimsy husk. – Harlan Coben
  9. Secrets, secrets, secrets. People are filled to the brim with them if you look closely. – Sarah Pinborough
  10. I can never -˜un-love’ you, Marcus. You are mine, all of you. Your faults are now my own, and all of your secrets are now mine to keep. – Marina Simcoe
  11. Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell. – Kim Edwards
  12. Tell me what you want, and I’ll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I’ll tell you who you really are. – Brunonia Barry
  13. I can’t tell you the things I know,- I repeated. -œWhy not?- -œThey aren’t my secrets to tell. – Embee
  14. Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return. – Abhijit Naskar
  15. Love as a flower loves the morning sun.Love with kindness, expect no return. Love like the morning sun, expect no return. – Debasish Mridha
  16. When man will return to nature, nature will return to him. – Grigoris Deoudis
  17. If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return. – Kamand Kojouri
  18. The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic – Edith Wharton
  19. The world he had left was not ready for his return, or rather, he was not ready to return to the world he had left. – Matthew J Hefti
  20. If you give, expecting something in return, it’s not really giving at all.If you love, expecting something in return, it’s not really loving at all. – Donald L Hicks
  21. The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return. – Yrsa DaleyWard
  22. As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives. – Anthony Liccione
  23. Spread the good and it will return to you. Spread the bad and it will return to you. Choice is yours what you want to receive. – Ambreen Ali
  24. Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. – James Joyce
  25. The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
  26. He’d kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers. – Kim Edwards
  27. It is known all over the world that there are no secrets in the ghetto and as long as you keep those secrets, you may keep your life. – Felix Alexander
  28. There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories captive. – Bryan Hall
  29. Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets. – Candace Bushnell
  30. For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity. – Sebastian Barry
  31. Secrets are the kind of adventure she needs. Secrets are safe, and they do much to make you different. On the inside where it counts. – EL Konigsburg
  32. Secrets press inside a person. They press the way water presses at a dam. The secrets and the water, they both want to get out. – Franny Billingsley
  33. Secrets… Dexter a perfect example what… can happen with secrets. – Deyth Banger
  34. I didn’t like having secrets. Secrets only ended up hurting people. – Elizabeth Eulberg
  35. Keep your secrets. You’re too young and beautiful not to have secrets. – Velvetoscar
  36. There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. – J Robert Oppenheimer
  37. Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things. – Augusta Scattergood
  38. Humans have nothing to do with angels and fairies, then why still I love you? – MF Moonzajer
  39. Yeah, I write Urban Fantasy, but its more like Die Hard or Indiana Jones with Fairies, Mummies and a Vampire who uses guns more than his teeth. – Kevin James Breaux
  40. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! – Francis Pharcellus Church

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