Quotes About Expression

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. —Maya Angelou

the fruit merely a manifestation of what was inside the tree all along.

Her telephone voice was brisk and without any tone at all.

It isn't always easy to bear your soul to perfect strangers, harder still, sometimes, to do so to loved ones.

You need to capture that essence, the part of you that makes you special, the part of you that makes you sing.

For a long time, I felt like I was living a closeted life, hiding what seemed most real to me from the rest of the world...I feel incredibly grateful to all those who have entrusted me with their own deeply personal stories of creative awakening.

in regards to Chad's Nifty Over Fifty Moustache and Beard Darkener] "'Dark Bravado Blonde, Number 143.' The name alone makes my loins all aquiver." --Amber

You're a witch?- I shake my head. -I don't believe in organized religion. Why limit body, mind, and spirit in just one way?

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard.

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard. Otherwise, what's the point of stories?

Because when a little girl wants to wear jeans and play soccer, her parents are thrilled, but when a little boy wants to wear a dress and play dolls, his parents send him to therapy and enroll him in a study. We just don't know yet the long-term effects on these kids of puberty suppression.

mirrors, and scraps of scribbled

It's not that Poppy's the girl and Claude's the boy. There's boy and girl in both of them. They both have what they parade and what they hide. It's that Poppy's the happy child, and Claude is the sad one

They don't say what they mean." "No one says what they mean." "No one says what they mean all the time. Most people say what they mean sometimes. Usually." "Teenagers done know what they mean.

At home, there is no middle way. You're male or you're female. There's no in between. You conform or you hide. You conform or you're wrong. If you dress like a girl, then you have to be a girl, all girl, and if any part of you's not, that's not okay.

When a little girl wants to wear jeans and play soccer, her parents are thrilled, but when a little boy wants to wear a dress and play dolls, his parents send him to therapy.

That's what all stories want. They want to get out, get told, get heard. Otherwise, what's the point of stories? They want to help little boys go to sleep. They want to help stubborn mamas fall in love with dads. They want to teach people things and make them laugh and cry.

She knew that what came out of kids was often terrifying, but its coming out, rather than staying inside, was the happy ending.

It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

It's easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.

I am getting better at smiling when people expect it.

I have never heard a more eloquent silence.