“Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.”

“She wears her clothes, as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

“There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was raw. I felt swollen with potential tears, like a water balloon filled to burst. Begging for a pin prick.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

“While you were gone, these spaces filled with darkness. The obvious was hidden. With nothing to believe in. The compass always points to Terrapin.”

Robert Hunter (1941–2019) American musician

“When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.”

Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi

“He treasured her, treasured her tears, treasured her love for others. Her heart might even be big enough to fill that empty space in his own chest. Perhaps she could be his heart as well.”

Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer

“At last, small witches, goblins, hags,
And pirates armed with paper bags,
Their costumes hinged on safety pins,
Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.”

John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic

“In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

“Your father bears an iron reed
Filled with a flame that makes us bleed;
Your kindly mother loves to tear
Feathers and skin to deck her hair.”

Edward Andrade (1887–1971) English physicist

“Tear-filled eyes make sweet lips.”

Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival