"I could take care of that obstacle for her - I'd tear down anything standing between us - but I couldn't destroy what I couldn't even see."
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"Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears."
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"Caleb," I say, "I love you." His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice."
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"Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well."
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"But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in."
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"I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them."
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"When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears."
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"What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!"
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"To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness."
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"Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad."
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"Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own."
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"Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them."
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"A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear."
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"She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins."
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"He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears."
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"When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation."
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"In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor."
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"Alex kneels down to Shelley's level. The simple act of respect tears at something suspiciously like my heart. Colin always ignores my sister, treating her as if she's blind and deaf as well as physically and mentally disabled."
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"Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces."
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"For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?"
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