Quotes About Expression

it's like kissing a boy, finally, a boy

The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.

Silence equals death, we'd say. And underneath that would be the assumption—the fear—that death equaled silence.

It was cool to see reading become such a transparent act–it was as if her face had a different expression for each punctuation mark, and when there was dialogue you could see her actually listening to it in her head.

mom: my point is that there are times when you just have to let it all out. all of the anger, all of the pain. me: have you thought of talking to someone about this? i mean, i have some pills that might interest you, but i think you're supposed to have a prescription. it's okay - it only takes up an hour of your time for them to diagnose it.

This is the dangerous thing about musicals. Most of them assume that as soon as you find your voice, you'll use it to sing to someone else.

We don't talk about anything. She talks, for sure. She talks and talks and talks. But we don't talk at all.

We are who we are, I said. And we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.

David Levithan

I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Southern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you permeate my very language.

He says presents aren't important, but I think they are __ not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say I understand you.

There was never that big a disturbance," she tells me. "I didn't think of myself as a boy or a girl—I never have. I would just think of myself as a boy or a girl for a day. It was like a different set of clothes.

O som das palavras quando são ditas é sempre diferente do som que fazem ao serem ouvidas, porque o falante ouve parte do som do lado de dentro.

We are who we are, and we'll be who we'll be. A book can make us feel that, but it can't invent that. It's already inside us.

Appropriate. The word is a well-dressed cage, used to capture the truth and hang it in a room that no one ventures into.

tiny doesn't just sing these words - he belts them. it's like a parade coing out of his mouth. i have no doubt the words travel over lake michigan to most of canada and on to the north pole. the farmers of saskatchewan are crying. santa is turning to mrs. claus and saying 'what the fuck is that? - will grayson

What took you so long? Elijah doesn't know what to say. Shrugs were invented to answer such questions, so that's just what Elijah does.

You can say things over and over to yourself, but the moment you say them out loud to someone else, they become something different, like you're taking a fear and giving it a solid shape so it can actually hurt you. And when someone else says the things you're saying in your head—that has the same effect. It should feel better to be sharing it, but it also makes it less deniable.

Danny curses up a storm. And feels stupid. Because cursing in front of company at least generates an effect. Cursing alone is like taking a Hi-Liter to futility.

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is. I

When you're telling the truth, you should look terrified and exhilarated at the same time, because telling the truth is navigating both of those feelings at the same exact time.

Why try to angle together the wall souvenirs of our new-to-New-York lives, when we could invent new hieroglyphs to represent us?

They had no right to deny us. But they had every right to feel things.

You are here for... the nice girls who want to scream but are afraid of breaking something...