There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either.
– RA Mathis
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- Secrets, secrets, secrets. People are filled to the brim with them if you look closely. – Sarah Pinborough
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- I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. – Gertrude Stein
- Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in. – Kester Brewin
- People bond themselves into families and groups for protection, and strangers…strangers are always at risk. – Rachel Caine
- 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
- Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places. – Linda Hogan
- What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit… – Bill Bryson
- In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. – Wallace Stegner
- Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves? – Richard Paul Evans
- Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned. – James Joyce
- The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home. – Carolyn Byers Ruch
- 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
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- Some secrets are better left at that -as secrets. – Candace Bushnell
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Secrets… Dexter a perfect example what… can happen with secrets. – Deyth Banger
- I didn’t like having secrets. Secrets only ended up hurting people. – Elizabeth Eulberg
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- There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. – J Robert Oppenheimer
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- Was I a fool to believe in fate or in some destined illusionary path? I don’t know. But we all need something to believe in. – JohnTalmage Mathis
- It shouldn’t surprise us-¦to find that prayer is not finally about getting things from God, but getting God. – David Mathis
- This is the heart of prayer-”not getting things from God, but getting God. – David Mathis
- -¦Prayer to God is not only the place for divulging our heart, but also developing our desires. – David Mathis
- The great purpose of prayer is not getting things from God but getting God. – David Mathis
- When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .prepare for survival. – JohnTalmage Mathis
- The ordeals of others . . .prepare us, andlater become the compass . . .in our time of ordeal. – JohnTalmage Mathis
- Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep . . .trump the need to preserve your credit score, orpurchase a new gizmo. – JohnTalmage Mathis
- Preparation:allows you to prevent . . .the intensity of the ordeal. – JohnTalmage Mathis
- The Bible is gloriously for us, but it is not mainly about us. – David Mathis