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“...I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...”
“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.”
“Prim, let go," I say harshly, because this is upsetting me and I don't want to cry. When they televise the replay of the reapings tonight, everyone will make note of my tears, and I'll be marked as...”
“I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?”
“I've wept enough in my life. I have no tears left.”
“If tears of sorrow are the echoes of things lost, what then are tears of joy?”
“I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back. ”
“What is the weight of a tear? The single tear falls when the buckets have stopped, when dry eyes and a slightly raised chin sometimes let it slip, like a prayer. It carries the weight of a lifetime.”
“Stung, I lifted my eyes to his and saw them as if for the first time. Eyes the color of rain, soft as dew and strong enough to etch a mountainside. Tears shimmered there tears, ay Mother! Or maybe...”
“I was all too aware that there's an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so. I told myself that my tears were due tot he cold, and I believed myself.”
“Tears are a wonderful thing. They cleanse the eyes and the heart. Thanks to our tears we can better see the world and our friends.”
“There was no point in tears outliving eyes, so she let them fall.”
“Every teardrop that falls from your chin, God will catch in the palms of His hands!”
“How do you want us to tune the lens and our eyes are filled with tears”
“We are all watching and not knowing what to do because when grown-ups cry, it's not like you can ask them what's wrong, or tell them to shut up; there are just no words for a grown-up's tears.”
“Then you go ahead and cry, " Will said. That ended my weeping. Had he asked me not to cry, I would not have been able to stop, but his permission somehow quit my tears.”
“Tears are a cleansing shower for the soul.”
“When she felt the tears coming up, building like a great hard pressure inside her, hot, so hot she thought they would burn, she swallowed them down deeper and deeper until they became a hard little...”
“These are the winter's people, he reminded himself. Tears froze upon your cheeks where they come from.”
“...The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
