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“This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]”
“Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.”
“It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them stingthat I discovered I was crying.”
“Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.”
“If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!”
“It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.”
“No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.”
“She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.”
“The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.”
“After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear fro...”
“I rode all day.I cried all night.The moon didnt glow.The sun didnt rise.A comet blazedBetween my eyes.West and South,Wind and rain.Every way isJust the same.Pray give me a boxTo hide inside.Pray gi...”
“He didn't understand how sadness came so easily to people. For him it was like a pile of rocks that had to be moved one at a time. Just thinking about it made him tired.”
“It makes me sick, the way sadness is addicting. The way I cant stop. Sadness is familiar. Its comfortable and its easy in a sense that it comes naturally to me. But everything else about it is hard...”
“He smiles sadly. "Now I know my destiny.""What is it?""This."He draws me in to him in a kiss. His lips are warm. He pulls me tighter in his embrace. The roots sigh and release their hold on my wais...”
“...sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness...”
“I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.”
“In every cloud, in every tree filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women my own features mo...”
“Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone.She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.”
“Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?Hmm, said Jules. Yes. The Holocaust.”
“The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.”
