"No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved."
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"I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed."
"What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?"
"You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud."
"When they remain silent, they cry out."
"Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond."
"let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers."
"As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries."
"And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?"
"I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life."
"The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his."
"Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a cliché by and by."
"If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry."
"It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!"
"There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry."
"We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die."
"I'm only going to be here for a time, then leave you." His gaze met mine. "And I will cry when I go, because I could love you forever."
"Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it."
"Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless."
"When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine."