Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.
One must gauge one's trust carefully.
The tapestry of history is woven of many threads.
A nervous silence loosens tongues
It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.
Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.