“I haven't cried since Mom died. I mean, after something like that, what's left to cry about, right? But I let myself cry now. Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it. (266)” MeanLeftLossHavensCryMomDiedCriedMom Died Author:Ellen Hopkins
“Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.” ShouldMeanSaidLaughingCryEuropeHappy Again Author:James A. Baldwin
“They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of the spheres. To hiro they added the word koue, a cry of joy or distress, according to whether it was sung or howled. Thus they essayed to piece the mysterious curtain which hangs between all talking men: at the end of every utterance a man stepped back, so to speak, and attempted to interpret his words to the listener, attempted to subvert the beguiling intellect with the noise of true emotion.” MenMeanSaidEndsJoySpeakEmotionResponsibilityTalkingPiecesCrySpeechIntellectNoiseMysteriousSpheresListenersDistressCurtainsUtteranceInarticulateTrue Emotions Author:Leonard Cohen