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  1. William Goldman _ The Princess Bride

    She had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering.
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  2. William Goldman _ The Princess Bride

    And when she at last came out, her eyes were dry. Her parents stared up from their silent breakfast at her. They both started to rise but she put a hand out, stopped them. 'I can care for myself, please,' and she set about getting some food. They watched her closely. In point of fact, she had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, and an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. She was eighteen. She was the most beautiful woman in a hundred years. She didn't seem to care. 'You're all right?' her mother asked.Buttercup sipped her cocoa. 'Fine,' she said.'You're sure?' her father wondered.'Yes,' Buttercup replied. There was a very long pause. 'But I must never love again.'She never did.
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  3. Dennis Lehane _ Shutter Island

    Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.
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  4. Dennis Lehane _ Shutter Island

    But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.
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  5. William Timothy Murray _ The Bellringer

    Proud houses fall into decline and great cities pass into ruin. The stories of those things are lost to forgotten languages and moth-eaten scrolls. Vine and root grapple with the rune carved in stone, and rust carries away, fleck by fleck, the great gates of iron.
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  6. George Bernard Shaw _ Pygmalion

    What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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  7. Irvin D. Yalom _ Love's Executioner and Other

    The sentiment that one "should have done something more" reflects, it seems to me, an underlying wish to control the uncontrollable. After all, if one is guilty about not having done something that one should have done, then it follows that there is something that could have been done - a comforting thought that decoys us from our pathetic helplessness in the face of death.
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  8. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away."
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  9. Edward Gibbon _ Memoirs of My Life

    I must reluctantly observe that two causes, the abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.
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  10. C.S. Lewis _ A Grief Observed

    No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.
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  11. Seamus Heaney

    Mid-Term BreakI sat all morning in the college sick bayCounting bells knelling classes to a close.At two o'clock our neighbours drove me home.In the porch I met my father crying-He had always taken funerals in his stride-And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pramWhen I came in, and I was embarrassedBy old men standing up to shake my handAnd tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble'.Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,Away at school, as my mother held my handIn hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.At ten o'clock the ambulance arrivedWith the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.Next morning I went up into the room. SnowdropsAnd candles soothed the bedside; I saw himFor the first time in six weeks. Paler now,Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,He lay in the four-foot box as in his cot
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  12. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    She now felt an incessant and universal numbness.
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