Quotes About Expression

The urge to kill is shown by glares, not by words.

My silence made her say things she didn't need to say..

The silence of the room was shattered with a wail of pain coming from deep within me.

Sí, ambicioso... Si lo llamo ambicioso, es sobre todo en honor a nuestra estrecha amistad, de otro modo se expresaría uno más correctamente diciendo que pega fuerte con los codos. La ambición es una cosa tan poco ordinaria... Nos hemos acostumbrado a decir que alguien es ambicioso cuando aspira a ser consejero de estado.

One fine morning, I awoke to discover that, during the night, I had learned to understand the language of birds. I have listened to them ever since. They say: 'Look at me!' or: 'Get out of here!' or: 'Let's fuck!' or: 'Help!' or: 'Hurrah!' or: 'I found a worm!' and that's all they say. And that, when you boil it down, is about all we say. (Which of those things am I saying now?)

She says that what you did was a cry for help." "It was," I say. "That's why I was yelling 'Heeeelp!' I don't really go in for subtlety.

I love you, you see...and I fear I have no way to say or show it that isn't terrible, except coming here. I would kill everyone in the world for you, if you wanted.......Or not obviously

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

It's disturbing to see him like this, behaving as though he might have emotions.

I urge you: Come be angry at a nearer distance.

Rules are different for poets.

Prince Balekin smiles back as though their smiles could duel without the rest of them even being involved.

I am not weak, he wanted to shout, but he wasn't sure he could say that aloud, either

Each of you will have a chance to play it, and whosoever plays most sweetly, you will have it. For art is more than virtue or vice.

I thought you could use a little nonsense," she told him, which worried him a little.

In general, her family wasn't very good at talking about important stuff. And of all of them, she was the least good at it. When she tried, it felt like all the chains on all her imagined safes and trunks started rattling

She sits up. I can't read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. "I didn't think you were going to be here." "I live here.

I don't have the words. I want to touch her, but I don't deserve it.

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

I smile when I'm nervous.

Some people have stuffed animals," Aaron said with a shrug. "Other people have knives.

I hate you,¨ I whisper before he can speak. He tilts my face to his. ¨Say it again,¨ he says as the imps comb my hair and place the ugly, stinking crown on my head. His voice is low. The words are for me alone. I pull out of his grip, but not before I see his expression. He looks as he did when he was forced to answer my questions, when he admitted his desire for me. He looks as though he´s confessing. page 104-105

It was a voice so full of emotion that it sounded like no emotion at all.