...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 Bret Harte
The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius invoked against all contingent evils, but especially against bears, which, like the fiery dragons of old, seemed to cherish unconquerable hostility to the...
If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, 'It might have been, ' More sad are these we daily see:' It is, but hadn't ought to be.
There was, I think, a prevailingimpression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune wasthe result of the defective moral quality of his being a stranger.
For, he (The Devil) observed, the issue of the great battle of Good and Evil had been otherwise settled, as he would presently show him. "It wants but a few moments of night, " he continued, "and over this interval of twilight, as you know,...
Which I wish to remark - And my language is plain - That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain The heathen Chinese is peculiar.
