...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 Amy Waldman
Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.
Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.
Sorrow can be a bully.
Tears filled Claire’s eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn’t leave.
Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
