...I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...
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John Geddes
He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
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Lois Lowry
Prim, let go, " I say harshly, because this is upsetting me and I don't want to cry. When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I'll be marked as an easy target. A weakling. I...
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Suzanne Collins
I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?
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Louise Erdrich
If tears of sorrow are the echoes of things lost, what then are tears of joy?
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Tyra Lynn
More Quotes By Sarah Winman
The principles of catching rumours were, in fact, similar to the principals of catching dreams, but because rumour was weightier, the catcher had to be positioned closer to the ground. Rumour flew low, dreams flew high, and somewhere in between were prayers.
And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.
The choir sang and the old man sang and Drake couldn't sing, and suddenly he began to cry because of the music, because of the sound of the boys' voices, because of what they might turn into.
And they held on tight to that beautiful silent moment before words transported them to the realm of the ordinary, to the realm of the inarticulate and mundane.
Those left behind prayed constantly for peace but prayers came back with Return to Sender stamped all over them. Only the roll call of the dead grew.
