Quotes About Expression

It means feelings come through loud and clear whether you express them in words or not.

I couldn't bring myself to talk like one of those corny made-for-TV movies where people say exactly what they're feeling, as though there was nothing difficult about that at all.

That his inability to express what he was feeling had formed such a tight and inescapable box around his being that he could barely breathe.

any book incapable of offending someone isn't worth the time it takes to read it.

Right," Raymond said, realizing he was in prison. That his inability to express what he was feeling had formed such a tight and inescapable box around his being that he could barely breathe.

Raymond opened his mouth to say something. But he was still unclear on what the something would be. Part of him wanted to express what a big deal it was. Bigger than her words had tried to make it out to be. But it seemed unlikely that he would say a thing like that. He never had before.

Here's what I do. I say to my creator, 'I'm

I think it makes not one bit of difference if those words came from the soul of Annaliese Schmidt or from the inside of my own brain.

I either don't talk enough or I talk too much. There must be a right amount to talk. But I can never seem to find it." Another

It means feelings come through loud and clear whether you express them in words or not." - Nathan

He knew then why his voice had abandoned him. Because it takes courage to talk to people.

It's just communication with other humans, and I don't know why everyone is so afraid of it.

You have to dance especially at a time like this. That's the whole point. The dancing will bring you back into the moment. It's the dance that will save you.

You can only hold back tears for just so long.

knew I was being too talky. I could hear it. I felt around for the off switch but never found it. Not that I think he cared. I was being too talky for me.

what's worse, if you're expected not to show your feelings, or if you're expected to show them so they can be disregarded?

I think anger is a normal human emotion. And I think people getting in touch with their emotions is good. I think people tend to bury their emotions because they don't want to feel them. And I think we can't heal those emotions until we let them come out into the light." "So

While I was in bed, I thought about journals. I'd never kept one. I'd never given them much thought. Was there a comfort in them? There must be, or people wouldn't bother with them. Still, I wasn't sure I could imagine where such comfort would be hiding.

he'd be proud of me for crying, and I cry harder. How do you stop crying, Simon?

Son, don't you ever be sorry for saying what's really true, especially not in a room like this that's just made for that. The way you feel is the way you feel, and no matter how much you think you should feel some other way, you can't change that. There's some things in this life you can change and some you can't.

A human life is a very different place when you can tell people what you need.

Hey, I was fifteen. Drama was my contribution to the world.

Lincoln's smile could have scared rattlesnakes.

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.