What cannot be said, will get wept.
I like the idea of contained emotion because I grew up most of my life feeling that way. As an adolescent, people would always say I was not expressive, and they always made the mistake of thinking that I didn't feel anything because I didn't react to things.
So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.
And it was the kind of thing that loses the most important nuances when reduced to words. He had never told anyone about it, and he probably never would.
The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.
I shook my head no. For minutes, neither of us spoke a word. It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.
She wished such words unsaid with all her heart
All that we can't say is all we need to hear.
