“Frequent crying, swearing, and annoying laughter are those things that turn guys off.”— Abie Giles, slism.com
“You’re hurt and you’re allowed to be hurt. You’re allowed to feel sad, you’re allowed to cry and you’re allowed to be feeling the pain.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“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
“We all get our hearts broken. We get fucked up and throw up and we cry and listen to sad songs and say we’re never doing that again. But to be alive is to do it again. To love is to risk everything.”— Caroline Kepnes, amazon.com
“Love. He recoiled from the very idea. He knew all about love: love was following his best friend around school like a lost puppy, putting up with all manner of shit just to be near him. Love was sobbing himself to sleep night after endless night because the guy who’d taken his virginity hadn’t calle…”— Kate Aaron, amazon.com
“The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see -- the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survive…”— Katie McGarry, amazon.com
“Honestly, sometimes you just need a solid cry. Let that shit flow, you’ll feel better.”— Erika Wuelfrath, thoughtcatalog.com
“How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com
“But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com
“Have a good cry. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Carry tissues and extra makeup with you so you don’t look like a raccoon after.”— Morgan Chavez, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’ll never judge you for crying in front of me or anyone else. I know you can’t help it, I know there are certain triggers that just break you down into pieces and it’s okay.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before -- more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“I remember crying over you and I don’t mean a couple of tears and I’m blue. I’m talking about collapsing and screaming at the moon.”— The Avett Brothers, kcorley92.tumblr.com
“Keep your tears in your eyes where they belong.”— Michael Schur, Aisha Muharrar, Ron Swanson, Nick Offerman, imdb.com
“Crying. I don't care if this is the most moving sex ever (also, it probably isn't) — it isn't okay to cry during sex. You feel weird, he feels weird. And just, why? Don't do it.”— Liz Newman, yourtango.com
“Sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com