Crying is easy like breathing - the more you hold it in, the more you let out. - Tablo

Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Brandon Sanderson, The Emperor’s Soul


this is translated loosely as, “I speak to you hoping that you’ll be moved by something I say”, but that doesn’t quite encompass how this line feels to me.
“I speak to you, waiting, yearning, expectant - wanting you to be moved and affected by just one in the many things I say to you, that I will be able to achieve that somehow, unknowingly.”