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Lonesome tearsI can't cry them anymoreI can't think of what they're forOh they ruin me every timeBut...

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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, e...

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When you're successful, people have no sympathy. Nobody wants to catch the tears of a millionaire.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know th...

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Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.

I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, no...

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Stop it," Chance says out loud, angryraw, scornful voice that she hardly recognizes, "Jesus, just fu...

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she...let the blood spill down instead of tears.

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Cassandra ClareCity of Heavenly Fire

Faith," said Jem. "That you were better than you thought you were. Forgiveness, that you need not al...

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A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never ha...

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And yet here he was, looking at Jem Carstairs, a boy so fragile-looking that he appeared to be made ...

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When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands."Er," Magnus said. "Ar...

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When he let go of Clary, he turned and hugged Jace. Clary watched, tears running down her face.

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the ...

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Charles DarwinThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of eart...

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Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of eart...

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Charles DickensGreat Expectations

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace betwee...

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You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then...

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So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...

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Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his bod...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've hel...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear.

With my lost saints - I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! - and if God choos...

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The temptation is too strong for me. Oh, Lord! where is Thy peace that I believed in, in my childhoo...

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And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.

And then I did what I had never done in his presence, much less in his arms. I cried.

Laugh now, cry later.

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Erma BombeckThe Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

I would just as soon remain jamona than shed that many tears over a man.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a c...

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The tears coursed down her cheeks- not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her hea...

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She was surprised to find that something from deep down in herself welled into her eyes and burned h...

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François MauriacThérèse Desqueyroux

I won't let you go! I love you, Dog!''There will be other dogs and friends, and loves' whispered the...

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Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surpr...

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Past tears are present strength.

...[T]wo of you can be no match for the three giants, I will find you, if I can, a third brother, wh...

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These are the winter's people, he reminded himself. Tears froze upon your cheeks where they come fro...

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She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

He disliked tears, he has always disliked tears, had never understood them, and sometimes lost his t...

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But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock...

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Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.

Then, all but instinctively, I took her in my arms. Pressed against me, her whole body trembling, sh...

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I'd like to have a good long talk with you once you've calmed down. Please call me soon. Happy Birth...

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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

I was all too aware that there's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too ...

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Herta MüllerThe Hunger Angel

Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, h...

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And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

It was easy to conjure him up this morning, when everything was quiet and still. A little, ginger-be...

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J. K. RowlingThe Casual Vacancy

Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm ...

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And all the host laughed and wept, and in the midst of their merriment and tears the clear voice of ...

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I shall have to go. But-" and here Frodo looked hard at Sam- "if you really care about me, you will ...

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Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankles...

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My eyes were glued on lifeand they were full of tears.

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Jack KerouacAtop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a ...

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When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; swe...

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I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.

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Joan DidionThe Year of Magical Thinking

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at you...

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The tears come to my eyes so fast, there's just no way to stop them.

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Jonathan TropperHow to Talk to a Widower

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale ...

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Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall ...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul...

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I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

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Louise ErdrichThe Round House

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

Then his tears came once more, and feeling cold he went into his dressing-room to look for something...

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People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were begin...

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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved ...

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I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the poi...

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I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the poi...

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...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see...

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N. K. JemisinThe Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I she...

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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of lif...

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Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no ...

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Orson Scott CardMaps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finge...

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As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are...

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I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and n...

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Blade, she thought. I swallowed it; now cuts my loins forever. Punishment. Married to a Jew and shac...

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Philip K. DickThe Man in the High Castle

He saw tears rimming her blue eyes, tears that washed away Drizzt's anger, that told him that what h...

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Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears spe...

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She touched her fingertip to his wet face and brought away a tear. Amazed, he did the same. He taste...

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You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left ...

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The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing sad...

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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else anoth...

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If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a tur...

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I learned how to stop crying.I learned how to hide inside of myself.I learned how to be somebody els...

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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

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Sherman AlexieThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Nothing lasts forever,' Richie repeated. He looked up at Bill, and Bill saw tears cut slowly through...

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I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot...

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