The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get most 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 bought out. But it's more that 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 with. And you make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding a word you 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 teller, but for want of an understanding ear.
Stephen King
