Unspoken Guilt Quotes

Thematically, I like playing with the ideas of stuff that you try to bury, and you think will go away, but instead you carry it with you until it becomes crippling. And sometimes you have to look back and deal with some stuff in order to truly move forward.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

Hymns have always sounded like sung spells to me. I never felt included in the magic of the God songs I heard growing up - I knew I was going to hell before anyone ever told me that I was. People found comfort in this all-knowing source, but I felt frightened and found out. I developed some weird and very dramatic complexes.

Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.

For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease.

When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

There's nothing worse than saying the past is in the past, then dragging it into your kid's life.

I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.