“Anything you find yourself holding back, it’s probably what the audience most wants to hear.”— Howard Stern, rollingstone.com
“Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make you strong. If anything, it makes you weaker. Because you’re doing it out of fear.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“No matter how much I feel, I’m not going to let it out. If I have to cry, I’m gonna cry on the inside. If I have to bleed, I’ll bruise. If my heart starts going crazy, I’m not gonna tell everyone in the world about it. It doesn’t help anything. It just makes everyone’s life worse…. But if you’re bur…”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“We are the masters of the unsaid words, but the slaves of those we let slip out.”— Winston Churchill, amazon.com
“She’s letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“She’s letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you’re in big trouble.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Even though love covers all things, fear is what keeps us silent and keeps words unsaid. Fear keeps us standing in one place. Eventually, when it wins, it means we never got the courage to say what we needed to say.”— Hannah Brencher, amazon.com
“How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?”— John Locke, amazon.com
“We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.”— Clive Barker, amazon.com
“Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly.”— William P. Young, amazon.com
“I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“The chances we take, knowing no better, to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in, protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips...”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com