Mr. Albert? Mr. Albert?” Harley said.“ Just Albert’s fine, ” Albert said tersely.“ Me and Janice are thirsty.”“ I’m sorry, but I don’t have any water on me.” He managed a tight smile and moved on. But now Janice was crying and Harley was pleading.“ We used to live with Mary and she gave us water. But now we have to live with Summer and BeeBee and they said we have to have money.”“ Then I guess you’d better earn some money, ” Albert said. He tried to soften it, tried not to sound harsh, but he had a lot on his mind and it came out sounding mean. Now Harley started to cry, too.“ If you’re thirsty, stop crying, ” Albert snapped. “What do you think tears are made of? . Michael Grant
About This Quote

An insult to the weak. When someone says "tears are made of" they are trying to say that tears, like any other bodily excretion, can be easily cleaned up or wiped away. This might lead us to believe that tears are not an important aspect of emotions, but this is actually quite false. Tears are not merely excrement; they are a powerful emotion that has the ability to move us in ways that no other emotion can.

The idea behind this quote is that by wiping away one's tears, one is denying their own emotions and making oneself weaker. If the person who said this truly understood what made tears so potent, they would know better than to degrade them.

Source: Plague

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