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"That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him."
"He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything."
"Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension."
"For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering."
"Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving a row of fine-haired pills or tuftlets on each new edge! It is a staggering conception, showing an age-transforming feel for the unique properties of pulped wood fiber."
"We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others."
"Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground."
"A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears."
"The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on."
"They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself"
"Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?"
"You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords."
"We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so."
"Only a smile can make the tears dissapear"
"If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem."
"It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place."
"Either it brings tears to their eyes, or else -" "Or else what?" said Alice, for the Knight had made a sudden pause. "Or else it doesn't, you know."
"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin."
"He pulled her into a tight embrace. There was the sting of tears on her cheeks, but they weren't hers. He kissed the top of her head and murmured something. She didn't hear what he'd said, but that didn't matter. He was alive. Riley wanted to stay in his arms, but..."
"The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved."
