I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes...

The china came out of the storage boxes. We can now see where dishes are at, and that makes a big difference when you're setting the table for a couple hundred people.

The issue is that fragrance formulas are generally trade secrets, so there really is little pressure on companies to identify the chemical makeup of their products on a label.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

Then he led her to sit by him on a fallen gum trunk, smooth and white, and he leaned to whisper in her ear. Transferred the secret he and her mother had kept for seventeen years. Waited for the flicker of recognition, the minute shift in expression as she registered what he was telling her. Watched as the bottom fell out of her world and the person she had been vanished in an instant.