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“Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.”

Book:The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self

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“The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe--I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the edge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.”

Sad Suicide Mental Illness

Book:All the Bright Places

Source: All the Bright Places

“Afterward, he places the chest film on the light panel outside the door. Kate's ribs seem as thin as matchsticks, and there is a large gray blot just off the center. My knees go weak, and I find myself grabbing on to Brian's arm. "It's a tumor. The cancer's metastasized." The doctor puts his hand on my shoulder. "Mrs. Fitzgerald," he says, "that's Kate's heart.”

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Book:My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“First love is so special," she says. "You'll never forget it.”

Sad Irony

Book:My Dark Vanessa

Source: My Dark Vanessa

“meeting and falling in love with you, wasn't a mistake , but its something i regret ever doing again, its not your fault my love , i just cant deal with all your lovers , i feel used, i knew that you would never love me , but still, i loved you more then everyone else did, but you didn't love me... were still young , but i always want to be next to you , i always crave your touch , i'm sorry if sometimes i'm annoying sometimes, i just cant help but love you, and i promise i won't ever let you down, because in the end , all i wanted was you, and to be loved by you :) .”

Sad Crush Young Love

Author:mercedes j

“And she wished him to be a god. She had spoken it so simply, as if it were obvious. A god. I could not imagine him so. Gods were cold and distant, far off as the moon, nothing like his bright eyes, the warm mischief of his smiles.”

Beautiful Sad

Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“As I watched her drowse, tears filled my eyes. I was seized with the fear that she would die, that I would lose her. Angels are not meant to dwell in the world of men. I was never meant to have anything so good.”

Family Sad

Book:All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother

Source: All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother

“I would feel his absence even after death, would ache for him to be near me in a way he could never be again. I would bear the pain gladly to keep even a small part of him with me. The pain meant we'd been real.” — Serpent & Dove,”

Romance Sad Reid Diggory Louise Le Blanc Loureid Serprent And Dove

Book:Serpent & Dove

Source: Serpent & Dove

“It is sad that you pick a partner, have kids and then watch the person you planned to spend the rest of your life with fall apart.”

Life Kids Fall Sad Rest Partner Watch Apart Pick Planned

Author:Steven Magee

“Then, if any monster can love, it would be the one who wishes the most he wasn’t one. Don’t you think?”

Love Sad Monster Soulless Falling In Love Quotes

Book:The Tale of a Sin

Source: The Tale of a Sin

“DONT GO THERE!" he yelled, scratching his lungs, but it was too late, his friends, like flies, dropped one by one, one after the other as bullets ripped them to pieces.”

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Book:RøGM: The Last Story

Source: RøGM: The Last Story

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