How do you describe a person crying?

How about this:

Head aching, she knocked over her bike with unnecessary force onto the ground. She climbed the stairs, not even bothering a glance at her mother, as she stumbled up to her room and threw herself onto the bed. She wept, the salt of her life soaking the pillow below, hot torrents of grief coursing out her eyes like the breaking of a dam, mingling with the uncomfortable softness of the sheets, her racking sobs shaking her thoroughly with the knowledge that she had been betrayed - that nothing would ever be the same again. Gasping for air, she turned her head and sobbed some more.