Quote by James Patterson

“My dignified weeping gives way to full-on ugliness, my mouth open and my face contorted and sounds like a dying animal coming from my…

— Veronica Roth

“There are no faces truer than those that are so washed. How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at…

— William Shakespeare

“I suck the words word-dry to me, assimilated orderly at breakeye speed still hard and harder softer then line-lined book-dry ‘til not a drop…

— Chila Woychik

“It hurts too much to talk about. My teeth ache in my head. I open my mouth to speak, but what comes out instead…

— M.L. Rio

“Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”

— Arthur Golden

“I couldn't eat because that book made me cry so hard, I couldn't even breathe. Connie said to keep reading and keep breathing, like…

— Pat Schmatz

“I can’t get past one or two pages at a time.’ ‘That’s how it’s supposed to be read. Sipped like a soothing cup of…

— Sadeqa Johnson

“He bursts into tears, and not some manlike tears either, where you pretend you're brushing something off your face and, incidentally, wipe a tear.…

— Alex Flinn

“These words are vomit. This shaky pen is my esophagus. This sheet of paper is my porcelain bowl.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“Readers, friends, if you turn these pages Put your prejudice aside, For, really, there's nothing here that's outrageous, Nothing sick, or bad — or…

— François Rabelais

“You weep, and weep, for nothing, so as not to laugh, and little by little . . . you begin to grieve.”

— Samuel Beckett