Segredos

All the while Nazneen counted her secrets. How had it happened? It was as if she had woken one day to find the she had become a collector, guardian of a great archive of secrets, without the faintest knowledge of how she had gotten started or how her collection had grown. Perhaps, she considered, they just breed with each other. And then she imagined her secrets growing like a column of ants, appearing at first like a few negligible specks and turning so quickly into an unstoppable force.

Brick Lane

Monica Ali