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• We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory.

  Pat Conroy

  Mother, Children, Memories

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.759, Open Road Media

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• No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me." "Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?" It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it. "I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I…let them both down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Suffering, World

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• It is," I said. "And it's not even difficult. But I need your promise on the River Styx." "What?" Dionysus cried. "You don't trust us?" "Someone once told me," I said, looking at Hades, "you should always get a solemn oath." Hades shrugged. "Guilty.

  Rick Riordan

  Rivers, Promise, Needs

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• I only want to catch you,” Michael explained. “I won’t hurt you.” “No! No!” the star crackled desperately. “That’s wrong! I’m supposed to die!” “But I could save you if you’d let me catch you,” Michael told it gently. “No!” cried the star. “I’d rather die!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hurt, Stars, Want

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. "I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?

  James M. Barrie

  Cheer, Boys, Silence

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• You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Running, Pain, Real

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf

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• We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

  Nnedi Okorafor

  Tears, Finished

  Nnedi Okorafor (2011). “Who Fears Death”, p.32, Penguin

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• It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

  Stephen King

  Children, Heart, World

  Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Tears, Reason, Tendencies

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Twilight: Twilight”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Momma said that ghosts couldn't move over water. That's why Africans got trapped in the Americas.. They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. That's where Momma was now, wailing at the water's edge, while her girls were pulled out of sight under white sails that cracked in the wind.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Moving, Sight

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• Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.

  Alex Haley

  Boys, World, Mouths

  Alex Haley (2016). “Roots: The Saga of an American Family”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Uplifting, Dream, Spiritual

  William Butler Yeats, Ulick O'Connor (1990). “The Yeats companion”, Pavilion Books

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• i cried when i saw those buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.

  Suheir Hammad

  Heart, Broken, Saws

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• She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much broken as just ... empty. It felt like she was an outline empty in the middle. The outline cried senselessly for the absent middle. The past cried for the present that was nothing.

  Ann Brashares

  Broken Heart, Past, Empty

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.84, Random House

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• When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

  Gary Paulsen

  Hurt, Dark, Self

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Mercy!" cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?" "The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas," laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Sea, Names

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• I rode all day. I cried all night. The moon didn’t glow. The sun didn’t rise. A comet blazed Between my eyes. West and South, Wind and rain. Every way is Just the same. Pray give me a box To hide inside. Pray give me a spade To dig my own grave.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Rain, Eye, Moon

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• “There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away. “There’s my Poochiekins!” Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me with his rough snout. “My lord Osiris!” Disturber lost the bottom of his scroll again, which unraveled around his legs. “This is an outrage!” “Sadie,” Dad said firmly, “please do not refer to the Devourer of Souls as Poochiekins.”

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Dad, Osiris

  "The Serpent's Shadow". Book by Rick Riordan, May 2, 2012.

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• Ford put a hand to his head. “Back up. Back up!” he cried. “You’re too close.” Heart pounding, I looked at the eight feet between us and pressed into the fridge. “I think he meant for the ghost to back up,” Jenks said dryly.

  Kim Harrison

  Heart, Thinking, Eight

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• Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Father, Long, Foam

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Pride, My Best Friend

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Someone Like You”, p.18, Penguin

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• Jem cried out with all his remaining strength. You cannot go where I am going! Nor would I want that for you!

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Want, Jem

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1149, Simon and Schuster

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• He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility.

  Stephen King

  Loneliness, Reality, Long

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• I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Leave Me Alone, Never Leave Me, Leaving Me

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.452, Hachette UK

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• Oh dear,"cried Rhonda just then, for Mr. Benedict, awash in strong emotion, has gone to sleep.with a sudden loud snore he toppled forward into the attentive arms of Rhonda and Number Two, who eased him to the floor. "What's wrong with him?" Constance asked. "He has narcolepsy," said Kate. "He steals a lot?" "That's kleptomania," Sticky said. "Mr. Benedict sleeps a lot.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Strong, Sleep, Two

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