“I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that he could feel the shudder of my sobbing body because grief swamped me. It overwhelmed me and tore at my heart and my stomach and my head and it pulled me under, and I couldn…”— Jojo Moyes
“The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you in the very quick and…”— John Green, Colin, amazon.com
“I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if shed taken the part of him that cr…”— John Green, Colin, amazon.com
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”— José N. Harris, amazon.com
“It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.”— Kristina McMorris, amazon.com
“Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just... something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day,…”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“I'm not crying for me. I'm crying for you. I'm thinking about all the horrible things I'm going to do to you. It scares me.”— Robert Kirkman, amazon.com
“When you cry in front of someone, when you show them your most vulnerable side, it shows that you really trust them.”— Zoe Sugg, amazon.com
“he was taking the tears with his lips, he was kissing them away; he was kissing my eyes and my mouth and our arms were round each other, and somehow my crying changed, I wasn’t crying in despair and wretchedness any more, but with a kind of luxury. My tears weren’t coming out of pain now, but out of…”— Lynne Reid Banks, amazon.com
“It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?”— Jude Deveraux, amazon.com
“There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.”— Libba Bray, amazon.com
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”— José N. Harris, amazon.com
“I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill. But I'm also feeling all that I have in my life, which, includes what I have lost, as…”— Gayle Forman, Mia, amazon.com
“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but a crying for all of the terrible things that have happened, not just to you but to everyone you know and to everyone you don’t know and even the people you don’t want…”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“A good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com