“Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.”
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Sad Quotes — page 275 of 475
“A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.”
“Misery travels free through the whole world!”
“Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.”
“If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!”
“She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”
“What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry you from the dark? A patch for that hole you carried in your heart? If so, then I wasn't enough. I wasn't nearly enough. I was no balm to your pain, only another dead end, another burden, and you must have seen that early on. You must have realized it. But what could you do? You couldn't go down to the pawnshop and sell me.”
“At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes .She closed the door on him . Laila leaned her back against it , shaking against his pounding fists , one arm gripping her belly and a hand across her mouth , as he spoke throughout the door and promised that he would come back for her . She stood there until he tired , until he gave up , and then she listened to his uneven footsteps until they faded , until all was quiet , save for the gunfire cracking in the hills and her own heart thudding in her belly , her eyes , her bones .”
“Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.”
“Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?”
“No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.”
“So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.”
“If a girl is pretty she will be tempted.”
“there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.”
“One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.”
“She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”
“If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated.”
“Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
“He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.”
“When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”