❝The most
important things are the hardest to say. They are the things
you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words
shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your
head to no more than living size when they’re brought
out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most
important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart
is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would
love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost
you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way,
not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you
thought it was so important that you almost cried while you
were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the
secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for
want of an understanding
ear.❞
