“I wonder, Leila... would they have stopped if they knew how terrible I felt? How miserable I was every time they fought? If they understood that, for me, the world ended each time their voices rose, would it have made a difference? Or was kindness never part of their plan?”
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“I write poetry in pain, not ink. These words leave me weeping in their wake.”
“Tears are the only cure for weeping.”
“[...] the sound of a closing door, the saddest of all sounds sometimes [...]”
“So many experiences have passed in my life that thinking about them now fills me with fear.”
“He was drawn to sadness and could not help noticing it in people.”