“There are 2 ways of crying-on the outside or from the inside-and I've been crying on the inside most of my life.”

“I was crying on the inside, but on the outside, to the casual observer, and to the man who was dying, I was laughing. That man was my father, and I haven’t laughed that hard since his funeral. Ah, but that’s life, no?”

“My mind took up a chant. Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me. Make me hurt, cry, bleed. Make my outside match my inside. Help me get it out, because I can't cry on my own”

“The Most Precious Things Inside Us Look So Ordinary From Outside, Although Glamorous Things Outside Are Always Fake Deep Inside ...It's The Truth Of Our Life That We Barely Recognize ..”

“The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.”

“I’ve never seen an old person cry like this. The sadness from life is supposed to be folded inside an old person, not streaming out. - Iris from Crossing the Tracks”