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  1. Ann-Marie MacDonald _ Fall on Your Knees

    I love the buildings. They're called skyscrapers. They're the closest thing to an ocean here. But it's an ocean that goes straight up, not flat out. They say that the body of water stretching away to the east of Manhattan is the ocean but it isn't. Not my ocean, anyway. It's weird because back home I just took it for granted, my grey-green sea. Now I have a granite ocean. It gives me the same happy-sad feeling I need sometimes. When I look straight up at the buildings I can feel alone in a good way. Not in that horrible way of no one knows me.
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  2. Lisa Schroeder _ I Heart You, You Haunt Me

    «I've never been to a funeral until today. I see dazzling arrangements of red, yellow, and purple flowers with long, green stems. I see a stained-glass window with a white dove, a yellow sun, a blue sky. I see a gold cross, standing tall, shiny, brilliant. And I see black. Black dresses. Black pants. Black shoes. Black bibles. Black is my favorite color. Jackson asked me about it one time. "Ava, why don't you like pink? Or yellow? Or blue?" "I love black," I said. "It suits me." "I suit you," he said. I'm not so sure I love black anymore. And then, beyond the flowers, beneath the stained-glass window, beside the cross, I see the white casket. I see red, burning love disappear forever. As we pull away, my eyes stay glued to the casket. It's proof that sometimes life does not go on. I look around. If tears could bring him back, there'd be enough to bring him back a hundred times. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm thinking, I hate good-byes. It's like I was a garden salad with a light vinaigrette, and Jackson was a platter of seafood Cajun pasta. Alone, we were good. Together, we were fantastic. Memories might keep him alive. But they might kill me.»
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  3. Kate DiCamillo _ Louisiana's Way Home

    Sometimes, when the light starts to fade, I get a terrible feeling of loneliness, like maybe I am the only person in the world.
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  4. Kate DiCamillo _ The Miraculous Journey of

    It is a horrible, terrible thing, the worst thing, to watch somebody you love die right in front of you and not be able to do nothing about it.
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  5. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _ The Grooming of Alice

    His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold.
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  6. Charles Bukowski _ You Get So Alone at Times That

    there's nothing todiscussthere's nothing torememberthere's nothing toforgetit's sadand it's notsadseems themost sensiblethinga person can doissitwith drink inhandas the wallswavetheir goodbyesmilesone comes throughit allwith a certain amount ofefficiency andbraverythenleavessome acceptthe possibility ofGodto help themgetthroughotherstake itstaight onand to theseI drink tonight.
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  7. Charles Bukowski _ You Get So Alone at Times That

    Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.
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  8. Alain de Botton _ The Architecture of Happiness

    Our sadness won't be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.
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  9. Alain de Botton _ The Architecture of Happiness

    It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us."
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  10. David Levithan _ Will Grayson, Will Grayson

    tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.
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  11. Manuel Rivas _ Books Burn Badly

    The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body."
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  12. Joe Meno _ Demons in the Spring

    This man has the same kind of charm, the kind that suggests weakness, the kind that indicates how sad he will always make her feel. There is something dependable, unfailing in this sort of sadness.
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