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She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned h...

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François MauriacThérèse Desqueyroux

I won't let you go! I love you, Dog!''There will be other dogs and friends, and loves' whispered the...

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Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surpr...

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Past tears are present strength.

...[T]wo of you can be no match for the three giants, I will find you, if I can, a third brother, wh...

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These are the winter's people, he reminded himself. Tears froze upon your cheeks where they come fro...

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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

He disliked tears, he has always disliked tears, had never understood them, and sometimes lost his t...

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But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock...

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Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, sh...

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I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birth...

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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

I was all too aware that there's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too ...

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Herta MüllerThe Hunger Angel

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, h...

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And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

It was easy to conjure him up this morning, when everything was quiet and still. A little, ginger-be...

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J. K. RowlingThe Casual Vacancy

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm ...

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And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of ...

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I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will ...

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Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankles...

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My eyes were glued on lifeand they were full of tears.

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Jack KerouacAtop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a ...

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When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; swe...

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I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.

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Joan DidionThe Year of Magical Thinking

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at you...

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The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.

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Jonathan TropperHow to Talk to a Widower

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...

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Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall ...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul...

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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

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Louise ErdrichThe Round House

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

Then his tears came once more, and feeling cold he went into his dressing-room to look for something...

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People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were begin...

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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved ...

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I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the poi...

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I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the poi...

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...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see...

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I she...

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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of lif...

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Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no ...

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Orson Scott CardMaps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finge...

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As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are...

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I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and n...

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Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shac...

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Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle

He saw tears rimming her blue eyes, tears that washed away Drizzt's anger, that told him that what h...

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Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears spe...

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She touched her fingertip to his wet face and brought away a tear. Amazed, he did the same. He taste...

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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left ...

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The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing sad...

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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else anoth...

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If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a tur...

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I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody els...

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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Nothing lasts forever,' Richie repeated. He looked up at Bill, and Bill saw tears cut slowly through...

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I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot...

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When she enters the room she immediately shuts the window and draws the shade with a quick, hard pul...

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Prim, let go," I say harshly, because this is upsetting me and I don't want to cry. When they televi...

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Suzanne CollinsThe Hunger Games

I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but...

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If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Oh! would I were dead now Or up in my bed now To cover my head now And have a good cry!

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't m...

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Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real r...

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Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real r...

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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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Victor HugoLes Misérables - anthology

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

Oh, dry the glistening tear that dues that marshal cheekThy loving childern here in them thy comfort...

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W. S. GilbertThe Pirates of Penzance

And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew c...

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers ...

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These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and t...

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We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even lou...

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Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And swe...

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The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep...

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

Oh Lady, let the sad tears fall To speak thy pain, Gently as through the silver dusk The silver rain...

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

Besides a burial service is rather lovely. Makes you feel uplifted, the grief is real. It makes you ...

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Agatha ChristieBy the Pricking of My Thumbs

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Tears are Summer showers to the soul.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him...

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Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must lea...

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But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings:...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldnes...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall