I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.
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Related We should keep in mind that there are always more truths to know, and we will know more as we evolve... THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU I always knew he had it in him. He had the hot hand, so we had to keep giving it to him. JANSEN HAMILTON I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had... RINGO STARR All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! ... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up. "Yes," I sai... SARAH DESSEN There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths th... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths t... ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD We must protect the freedoms we enjoy today to raise a family, to start and grow a business and keep... JIM GIBBONS In order to keep liking Nick (as opposed to loving him which was completely non-negotiable) Alice so... CAROL ANSHOW It kept going through my mind ... I knew I had to keep trying to get it up there. I felt like I had ... DALLAS RICHARDSON The truth is a labyrinth. Secrets are truths as sharp as razors ready to spread like a virus—ready... ADDISON MOORE But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as t... STEPHEN FRY We had tough games like when we faced Kentucky, but we knew we had to keep our composure during this... JEAN FELIX It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. ... MELINA MARCHETTA I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering... LOUIS L'AMOUR Truths, which transcend the searching School-men's vein, / And half had staggered that stout Stagiri... CHARLES LAMB We played man-to-man and that was what we were going to start out with. I knew I had to do my best t... ANTONIO DIMARIA I had to keep myself in the game. I had to play a lot smarter. ANDREW VONDERHAAR I’ve never really had a party before.” “Why did you have one now?” I say, just to keep him t... LAUREN OLIVER I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and ho... MICHAEL SCHENKER Henri held herself as if only her arms could keep her pieced together, and I saw that behind all her... JESSICA TAYLOR I got him to the mat and kept dropping elbows on him. I kept hammering away at him, and he never rea... JAKE SHIELDS We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to com... BRETT AMES I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote a... IMELDA MAY You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had ... JOEL OSTEEN I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave... SUE MONK KIDD I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself. NATALIA MAKAROVA I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling m... ERICA JONG If we had kept those undulations and slopes, golfers wouldn't be able to keep it on the green now. MARK FAULKNER ...I've never really had a party before." "Why did you have one now?" I say, just to keep him t... LAUREN OLIVER I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England. ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) Nobody really knows her Except the chosen few Her secrets are kept hidden Behind that... SIMONE ELKELES I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much... BRIAN ANDREAS Science is always simple and profound. It is only half truths that are dangerous. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years. DAVID BLAINE We knew we were going to have to do it through the back door because we knew we didn't have enough t... HARVEY STARBUCK In Rome, Matt had told her, ‘I knew that if I kept up my playing, we would have a baby.’ That wa... MICHELLE DE KRETSER I didn't understand that. We've had problems with getting the ball to Elyse sometimes. She's a hot h... DAVE BEEBE I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and whi... EMILE ZOLA If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien... CRAIG GROESCHEL Air punched out of my lungs. I held her tight, and I knew right then I would burn down the whole uni... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT I just had everything working. I knew I had to keep my composure. The goalie has to grind it out for... ERIC BRAUMANN The half-truths have been in fashion again. KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN I knew I couldn’t trust my illogical heart, and that meant I had to do everything in my power to s... CATHERINE DOYLE The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she... NEIL GAIMAN I'm good at keeping secrets. My friends always tell me their secrets because I keep them well. ERIN RICHARDS The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ... E. W. HOWE The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ... EDGAR WATSON HOWE Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our... ANTHONY LICCIONE She had a very nice season. I don't think we played as well without her there. She just always kept ... BOB REID I knew I had to go out and play a good round and make it mine. Guys are shooting 61 and 64 from behi... JUSTIN ROSE Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed i... TED TURNER Truth is always the sum of two half truths and one never catches them at the same time! HAROLD J. DUARTE-BERNHARDT Jones was a load down low. He is so physical that we had to bang with him and do anything we could t... BRAD BUCKMAN We knew we had to slow him down. We didn't. But we did enough good things to keep him out of the end... AVERY CUTSHAW I knew that they had some players and we couldn't keep that kind of shooting up. HARRY LADUE She (Wallace) seems like she's 7 feet tall. Inside I just stayed behind her and kept my arms up and ... WHITNEY BALL I knew we could pull it out. We just had to keep playing smart and not let up at the end of the game... JENNIFER HUMPHREY I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before an... DIANA GABALDON We went cold. I thought the effort was there. We didn't panic at half, we just had to keep at it and... DEREK ROBEY His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, s... EMILY ROSSUM And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ... FREDERICK BUECHNER They come at you from start to finish. We expected that, and we knew if we wanted to continue the st... VINCE CARTER His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disar... KATE MORTON I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about ... OLIVIA COOKE Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON We kept our composure this time. The last game we played them, we had a big lead on them but they ch... JACQUELINE JOHANNES When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the fl... STEPHANIE BEACHAM These kids just keep finding ways to win. We had a lot more poise in the second half. We were pushin... KAREN HAAG All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they b... T. S. ELIOT We just continually tried to keep fresh legs on her. They were screening for her all over the place.... RACHEL FARWELL I missed some shots at the beginning of the game, but I knew I had to keep taking it to the basket. ABBY OLIVER I was so broke. I was just trying to keep it going, keep the band going and writing all the time. ..... CHARLIE SEXTON Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep fi... PATRICK NESS All I knew is that I had to stay with her (Hall). She's taller than me but I felt I kept up with her... ANNESIA FAULKNER We did a great job keeping the ball down and trying to keep it away from their hitters. They've got ... DONOVAN NELSON I kept thinking to myself that we had just one last week. AMANDA ALLEN I feared it might be slipping away as Dundee tried to exert a stranglehold with their quality set-pi... JAMES REILLY The collar had restrained his winds but not killed them. They uncoiled from behind the shadows, read... LISA MANTCHEV (Miller's) an athlete, he's one of the premier players in the state of Kentucky. I just wanted to st... JAKE WELLS The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always ... TOM STOPPARD I knew she'd pull hard for the first two miles or so, and I'd have to catch her at the end. I knew I... KAIT COOK We all knew he'd get on a streak. I knew he had it in him. He can keep this going for weeks. Be sure... EVAN BROCK Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time... , ALWAYS NOW, 1997 Can I see you outside for a second?" Kat glared at Hale, then walked to the patio doors and out onto... ALLY CARTER I had to keep telling her I'd promised not to let her violate me. CARRIE JONES We played hard on defense early in the second half and we scored some quick points. We just couldn't... LARRY CARLESI I knew I had to come out in the second half and help my team out. I was feeling it, so I just kept s... AUSTEN ARNAUD We knew we needed to keep her under control and keep her in front of us. She brings a lot to the tab... DON ECKERLE
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SARAH DESSEN Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the... SARAH DESSEN I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran... SARAH DESSEN Nothing like being scolded by a hippie. SARAH DESSEN After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and sp... SARAH DESSEN I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. SARAH DESSEN Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never rea... SARAH DESSEN After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor wo... SARAH DESSEN It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost... SARAH DESSEN It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should... SARAH DESSEN When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need. SARAH DESSEN That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death... SARAH DESSEN It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean. SARAH DESSEN I want the white one SARAH DESSEN As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret... SARAH DESSEN Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?" What do you mean?"... SARAH DESSEN I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as... SARAH DESSEN So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me. "Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie." SARAH DESSEN Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there h... SARAH DESSEN I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings... SARAH DESSEN If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don�... SARAH DESSEN Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff... SARAH DESSEN There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto... SARAH DESSEN That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing... SARAH DESSEN And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in... SARAH DESSEN Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. SARAH DESSEN It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were y... SARAH DESSEN These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to... SARAH DESSEN You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like... SARAH DESSEN Story of my life. SARAH DESSEN instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her ... SARAH DESSEN I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, callin... SARAH DESSEN I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am ... SARAH DESSEN I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had t... SARAH DESSEN Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtak... SARAH DESSEN Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. SARAH DESSEN So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that lo... SARAH DESSEN