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Every Secret Thing QUOTES

Every Secret Thing QUOTES

1 " I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest encounter can open a door, or heal a wound, or close a circle that was started long before your birth. "

― , Every Secret Thing

2 " When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young. "

― , Every Secret Thing

3 " above our heads a chandelier of perfect crystal teardrops trapped the light and spun it out again against the golden walls in little rainbow arcs that wavered with the slightest breath of movement. "

― , Every Secret Thing

4 " I believe there are no random meetings in our lives― that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest encounter can open a door, or heal a wound, or close a circle that was started long before your birth...you never know. "

― , Every Secret Thing

5 " beginning was a problem in itself, in that this story started long before my birth. In many ways, it isn’t even properly my story; yet I chose, at last, to start where I came into it, and let the tales of those who came before me weave their way into the narrative. Not everyone who spoke to me survived. And there were stories I learnt later, that were placed throughout the "

― , Every Secret Thing

6 " I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest encounter can open a door, or heal a wound, or close a circle that was started long before your birth…you never know. "

― , Every Secret Thing

7 " They also serve, who only stand and wait. "

― , Every Secret Thing

8 " It smelt of panelling and polish and the dust that settles into velvet curtains, and above our heads a chandelier of perfect crystal teardrops trapped the light and spun it out again against the golden walls in little rainbow arcs that wavered with the slightest breath of movement. "

― , Every Secret Thing