Quote by Aimee Bender

“You will have experienced, perhaps, that feeling of being relieved of a weight that you had not properly realized was there?”

— John Wyndham

“I started really crying, letting out everything I'd been holding tightly inside. I was relieved, but mostly I was just sad. Sad that I'd…

— Morgan Matson

“I began to cry but maintained my shouting through it, like a wind through sheets of rain.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“and you can feel it in the air, they way the air has somehow been keeping score.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier.”

— Arthur Golden

“There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a…

— Kris Kidd

“I was feeling all fertile and blossoming there for a second. And now I just feel like me, on earth. I was floating a…

— Amy Fusselman

“They weren't tears of sadness or even tears of joy. I was just overflowing. Like so many things since I'd been here, I didn't…

— Elizabeth Bard

“it was then I cried, cried for the fact of not having cried and for the immensity of tears yet to be shed.”

— Edna O'Brien

“She was crying now, quietly, inhaling so vehemently it was as if she were trying to suck the tears back into her eyes.”

— Anthony Doerr

“They stood there, silent and motionless as the sky cried frigid tears.”

— Christopher Motz

“I went outside mournful, and I hit pure air.”

— Ali Smith