“Every year, when we finished Gatsby, I read the last page aloud. Also, every year, I wept... I almost looked forward to it. Crying once a year is probably necessary... it was involuntary, almost external, like being rained on, a nourishment, and it made me glad that I could feel that deeply, or had once.”
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“The wealth that we acquire with God’s help will not become a source of tears if it belongs to God.”
“We cry to awake the spirituality of the soul.”
“I blink January’s lashes and gush down December’s cheeks”
“she...let the blood spill down instead of tears.”
“what is more beautiful tears, in someone’s eyes for me or in my eyes for them.”
“may my touch always...be tender as i would stroke mother's cheeks when she cried.”