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“It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.”
― The Voice of the Body
― The Voice of the Body
“See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world like walking flamethrowers. But girls freak in. They absorb the pain and bitterness and keep right on sponging it up until they drown.”
― Leftovers
― Leftovers
“Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!"
Harry: "It's time you earned it.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry: "It's time you earned it.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Red-hot anger takes away a lot of the heartache.”
― Juicy Secrets
― Juicy Secrets
“Anger, Tessa thought, was satisfying in its own way, when you gave in to it. There was something gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.”
― Clockwork Angel
― Clockwork Angel
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