Every Single Secret Quotes

“You understand, don’t you,” he said gently, “that sometimes people hide certain facets of who they are, who they were, from the people they love? Not because they’re willfully trying to hurt them, but simply”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret

“There are monsters all around us—people who have to hide because the world can’t bear to see them for who they truly are.”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret

“You're saying our darkness is what gives us strength." He nodded "It's our beauty.”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret

“beige lipstick, and bright-blue eyelash extensions. College student, probably.”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret

“The point is, there are unsolvable problems that even the most brilliant among us can’t resolve. They’re in math but also science, philosophy, and art. Everywhere. So why, then, is it that we can’t accept unsolvable problems in human psychology? You can talk about your disagreements with the person that you love until your throats are raw. But it won’t change anything. And it won’t ensure a happily-ever-after.”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret

“The trick to constructing an unassailable relationship is to embrace the unsolvable.”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret

“You do this—you embrace the darkness, the treasure of the shadow—until the lines between you and it dissolve and it becomes an ally. Perhaps even an asset.”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret

“You can pull it close, wrap your arms around it, embrace the anathema you’ve been led to believe by all the experts and book peddlers and TED Talkers that you should erase.”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret

“Jung called it bringing the shadow to the conscious self, an essential part of achieving wholeness. One can’t deal with a problem they can’t articulate. But after that, after you see it for what it is, you must decide how you want to handle it.”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret

“It’s from the field of algebra. The wild problem is an unsolvable equation or concept involving classification and graphs and something called a quiver, which I’m not even going to begin to pretend I can explain.”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret

“The curate might set as many chapters as he pleased for Catherine to get by heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff till his arm ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together again . . . Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret

“That the past was like the surface of a crazy mirror. When you spoke certain things aloud, when they left your mouth, they changed. The words became either oddly magnified—blown out of proportion—or squeezed down to nothing. Right could appear wrong, good could look like evil, depending on the spin. No one talked about their past without things getting distorted—and without consequences. There were always consequences.”
― Emily Carpenter, Every Single Secret