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I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but...

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I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t...

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Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds ...

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

Blue jeans, white shirtWalked into the room you know you made my eyes burnIt was like, James Dean, f...

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Thought I couldn't live without youIt's gonna hurt when it heals tooEven though I really love youI'm...

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Robot. Is. Sad. Because silly bitch. Will. Not. Dance.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing,...

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It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No ...

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Forever?"Sam's lips smiled, but above his grin, his yellow eyes turned sad, as if he knew it was a l...

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There're a lot of things you don't understand." Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. "I came looking fo...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Ring of Endless Light

Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow.When he finally f...

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And so you know what I did with those sad things? I put them in boxes. I put the sad things in the b...

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He was every angel and every devil.

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

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Maggie StiefvaterLament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye

Grace: Outside, deep in the woods, I heard a long keening wail, and then another, as the wolves bega...

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You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adult...

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Is that all?" she whispered.Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.

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Maggie StiefvaterThe Raven Boys

When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t...

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I am only my money. It is all anyone sees, even Adam.

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.This means ...

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Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mot...

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I'm sad now, the way we're talking is infinitely sad: faded music, faded paper flowers, worn satin, ...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even t...

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. ...

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Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melanchol...

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It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.

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Maurice MaeterlinckMaurice Maeterlinck - Wisdom and Destiny

But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go - we’ll eat you up - we love you so!”And Max said, “N...

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It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people inc...

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This is me being sad.Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but prete...

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It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

I walked down the hall and saw that [she] was sitting on the floor next to a chair. This is always a...

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Miranda JulyNo One Belongs Here More Than You

It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moment...

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We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

But nothing was said about chicken farming anymore. Once, long after it was too late for farming, he...

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Nelson AlgrenA Walk on the Wild Side

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

It doesn't sound so far-fetched, right? When two people love each other? While a part of me still wa...

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When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that...

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Nick HornbyHigh Fidelity

And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to...

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I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for th...

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Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who p...

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Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I di...

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April 43rd 2000Today is the day of great triumph. There is a king of Spain. He has been found at las...

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Nikolai GogolDiary of a Madman and Other Stories

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the ...

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Everything she heard, everything she saw seemed to be in disagreement with her own manner of underst...

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Alai saw the tears but had the grace not to say so. "They're fartheads, Ender, they won't even let y...

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?'...

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Oscar WildeThe Star-Child and Other Tales

She knew the way of things. She knew ifyou weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the wholeworld ...

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...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

I am tired of days that are all the same.

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and wa...

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No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touc...

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Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be

From the bonny bells of heather,They brewed a drink long syne,Was sweeter far than honey,Was stronge...

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Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fest...

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How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal farther?

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Ruth OzekiA Tale for the Time Being

But we know that we are no longer the same, and not only know that we are no longer the same, but kn...

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She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the th...

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I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time....

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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they coul...

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Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone.

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Sarah DessenThe Moon and More

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one...

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Sarah DessenThe Truth About Forever

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop the...

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Sarah DessenThis Lullaby

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change arou...

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I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty sad...

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

I don't want Church to be like all those dead pets! she burst out, suddenly tearful and furious. I d...

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I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think tha...

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I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force any...

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This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:...

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And he would put his arms around her and hold her, but he had no idea what to tell her. In his mind,...

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Suzanne CollinsGregor and the Code of Claw

Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Reg...

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But more words tumble out. 'You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows ope...

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My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard.

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Suzanne CollinsThe Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset

I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but...

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Sarra looked at her daughter and said reproachfully, "Speaking of war, I never raised you to be alwa...

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If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting w...

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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more...

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No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has. Look at Woody Allen's fu...

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And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...

It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding

I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, ...

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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be...

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I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Becauseinside me is a ...

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