...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 Carsten Jensen
They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a finger, gave it a nickname, and masked their terror with roaring laughter.
They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.
Take the sailor, " he said. "he signs on to a new ship. He's surrounded by nothing but strangers. Not only do they come from other towns and parts of his own country, but often from completely different nations. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>He has to learn...
To Ejinar that cannonball was a monster with a will of its own. It showed him what war was: not a battery that exploded and sent matchstick soldiers fleeing, but a dragon that breathed hot fire on his naked heart.
There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that no sky could satisfy. Somewhere on the planet there had to be a different kind of light.
