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• I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Lonely, Anchors, Giving

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.1047, e-artnow

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• Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Rocks, Caves, Impulse

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1175, Dell

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• He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Flower, Heart, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2017). “Anna Karenina (English German bilingual Edition illustrated): Anna Karenina (Englisch Deutsch zweisprachige Ausgabe illustriert)”, p.495, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Rain Soft rain, summer rain Whispers from bushes, whispers from trees. Oh, how lovely and full of blessing To dream and be satisfied. I was so long in the outer brightness, I am not used to this upheaval: Being at home in my own soul, Never to be led elsewhere. I want nothing, I long for nothing, I hum gently the sounds of childhood, And I reach home astounded In the warm beauty of dreams. Heart, how torn you are, How blessed to plow down blindly, To think nothing, to know nothing, Only to breathe, only to feel.

  Hermann Hesse

  Summer, Dream, Blessed

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  We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Travel, Jukebox, Road Trip

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• …I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Hate, Numbers, Comfort

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

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• Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, “So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?” Clary thought of the male faerie‘s torn-open ribs and shuddered. “Nothing that pleasant.

  Cassandra Clare

  Dancing, Missing, Males

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• This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks on the sea. He'd felt the need before, often, often, in their years apart. But why now? She was safe; he knew where she was - was it only the exhaustion of the past weeks and days, or perhaps the weakness of creeping age that made his bones ache, as though she had in fact been torn from his body, as God had made Eve from Adam's rib?

  Diana Gabaldon

  Past, Years, Sea

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.2151, Delacorte Press

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• He thought of the jungle, already regrowing around him to cover the scars they had created. He thought of the tiger, killing to eat. Was that evil? And ants? They killed. No, the jungle wasn’t evil. It was indifferent. So, too, was the world. Evil, then, must be the negation of something man had added to the world. Ultimately, it was caring about something that made the world liable to evil. Caring. And then the caring gets torn asunder. Everybody dies, but not everybody cares.

  Karl Marlantes

  Caring, Men, Evil

  Karl Marlantes (2010). “Matterhorn”, p.264, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Function, Turns

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Perfect Match”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.

  Joanne Harris

  Feelings, Devil, Admiration

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• You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.

  Anne Tyler

  Mother, Thinking, Torn Apart

  Anne Tyler (1990). “Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels”, Avenel

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• The novel I am constantly writing is always the same one, and it might be described as a variously sliced-up or torn-apart book of myself.

  Robert Walser

  Book, Writing, Torn Apart

  Robert Walser (2013). “The Walk”, p.10, Profile Books

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• here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Determination, Wind, Two

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• Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Religious, Unique, Color

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

  Samuel Beckett

  Eye, Self, Tears

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

  Horace Walpole

  Drs, Pieces, Ministers

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• When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Hero, Home, Garden

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On "Tonight" I think I was torn dreadfully between writing what I wanted to write, but keeping it in a style that would follow up what I had just done. That's where I feel I was untrue to myself as an artist . . . that album and, to a lesser extent, "Never Let Me Down."

  David Bowie

  Writing, Thinking, Artist

  "POP MUSIC : David Bowie: The Man Who Fell . . . Then Got Up Again". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. April 4, 1993.

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• In some states, it is illegal to turn down a same-sex couple when you're placing children for adoption. That's discrimination. But in the Catholic church, the sacrament of marriage is defined officially as the union of a man and a woman. So a Catholic adoption agency is torn between its faith doctrine and what it sees as a faith obligation to help orphans.

  Tom Gjelten

  Sex, Children, Couple

  "In Religious Freedom Debate, 2 American Values Clash". wbgo.org. February 28, 2017.

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• Humanity and bestiality: when will the former finally be uttered with the flavor of hate and the latter with the flavor of love? Does a lion tear his fellow lion to pieces?

  Karl Kraus

  Hate, Humanity, Tears

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Humanity is the washerwoman of society that wrings out its dirty laundry in tears.

  Karl Kraus

  Dirty, Humanity, Tears

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Softball

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• A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Music, Art, Laughing

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• We, as citizens or members of people's organisations...can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one.

  Katarina Kruhonja

  War, Long, People

  Katarina Kruhonja's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1998.

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