#tears

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#held-back #shed #tears #dreams

But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finger straight up to my mouth and spread his fingers. "Push back laugh is not good. Not healthy." "Also cry?" I asked. I traced an imaginary tear down my cheek with one finger. "Also cry." He put his hand on his own belly. "Ha ha ha," he said, pressing his hand to show me the motion of his stomach. Then his expression changed to sad. "Huh huh huh," he heaved with exaggerated sobs, pressing his stomach again. "Same place. Not healthy to push down. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#laughter #suppression #tears #change

Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#hell #lost-love #tears #dreams

To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#release #relief #tears #dreams

...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ... ↗

— John Geddes

#love-loss #poetry #sketches #tears #vignettes

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#eyes #flow #heart #i #i am

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#because #both #break #break up #characters

A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#came #defined #down #entire #entire life

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them. ↗

— Judy Garland

#audience #bring #drama #i #know

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes. ↗

— Juvenal

#eyes #sweat #tears