#pressing

I believe that most of us, students and artists alike, ought to concern ourselves less with what we think is the right way to draw and more with letting our feelings flow through our hand. In this way, we stretch our dynamic nature. Our larger goal should be to draw in a way that expresses our vision. ↗

— Bert Dodson

#expressing #nature

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream? ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#dreams

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart. ↗

— John Green

#wise #wise

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#feeling #giving #gratitude #like #present

And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#anna-and-abel #anna-leemann #crying #depressing #heartbreaking

Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die. ↗

— John Green

#depressing #peter-van-houten #sad #the-fault-in-our-stars #weakness

From the moment we are born, we begin to die. ↗

— Janne Teller

#janne-teller #nothing #sadness #depression

...Sirius had never kept him waiting before...Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him...If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back...That he really was... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #depressing #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #sad

Expressing emotion is not so easy. He has to remind himself that English is not her first language. Expressing emotion can be difficult even when the words are familiar.  ↗

— Elise Valmorbida

#language-understanding #love

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#early #new #new york #place #pretty