Quotes About Expression

The weapons a writer has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example.I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

Her voice sounded like a string that was fraying.

A villain let your creativity out of its cage.

These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.

Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feelings bears you like a tide.

This was why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.

The strange thing; her face, after she hit me. She was in greater pain than I. You could see it in her eyes - like she had been violated in some way that broke her own image.

She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.

She had given me my first crayons and coloring book, and had held me when I messed up, assuring me that the lines were for people with no imagination

She threw words at me like handfuls of mud, and now that they've dried, I can brush them off.

Everyone has a book inside them - but it doesn't do an good until you pry it out.

You can always edit something bad. You can't edit something blank.

It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don't like how this feels, and have the complaint be socially acceptable. Boys, though, didn't speak that language. They didn't learn it as children and they didn't manage to pick it up as adults, either.

But gender isn't simple, much as some might want it to be. The fact that it's complicated—that there's a whole spectrum of ways of being in the world—is what makes it a blessing.

Can't you hear it?' you said. 'When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

Jos plaukai dabar yra ilgesni, o abipus jos burnos matyti dvi plonos rauksles, tarytum kliausteliai, gaubiantys milijona zodziu, kuriu as neturejau galimybes isgirsti.

If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you don't bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.

So you see, this is why I never told my story. If you lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it. And if you didn't, you will never understand.

Most of the time, the words that were not written were the ones you needed the most.

Words, he knew, could scar.

With each word that passes my lips, I feel less heavy. It is as if I am giving him sentences made of stones, and the more I relay, the more of the burden he is carrying.

This is why I never told my story... If you lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it. And if you didn't, you will never understand..

Waste cilake, Sioux for I love you

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them. My