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“The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.”

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Book:House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City

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House of the Tiger King : The Quest for a Lost City

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Tahir Shah

Tahir Shah is a British author known for his fantasy novels. Born on November 16, 1966, he spent his childhood in Morocco. Shah's works often blend culture, adventure, and fantasy elements, which have won him a wide audience. more

“How do you go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn't seem like your place to live anymore, when you almost cannot recall living there although it was the place you mostly ate and slept for all your grown-up life? Try to remember two or three things about living there. Try to remember cooking one meal.”

Home Loss Sadness Sorrow William Kittredge

Author:William Kittredge

“Her face expressed suffering so deep that I will never forget it; her eyes radiated a deep sadness...Mrs. Folmer was oppressed by that special sadness, perhaps the most horrible torture, of those who had no idea what happened to their loved ones.”

Fear Sadness Terror Torture Loved Ones

Book:Things We Couldn't Say

Source: Things We Couldn't Say

“Greatness is a common thing, found in common people from common places, who simply do uncommon things.”

Inspirational Quotes

Author:Dr Basil Ibebunjo

“It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die.”

Love Death Sadness Logic

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“SOMETIMES WHAT WE WANT BUT CANT GET IT, EVEN WE DO NOT TRY TO GET IT. AT LAST WE SATISFIED JUST FAILURE.”

Sadness

Author:RUPEE

“Letting myself fall wasn't easy. It wasn't hard either. It was a calling that I had to honour. I did honour. I took a plunge into my dark abyss. I faced my grief, my fear, my sadness, my loneliness, my anguish, myself. (Page 78)”

Fear Dark Grief Sadness Loneliness Calling Anguish Let Go Abyss Quotes

Book:A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

Source: A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

“Čím ľudia môžu byť šťastnejší, tým sú nešťastnejší.”

Sadness Suicide

Book:Veronika Decides to Die

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“The doctor was a frequent visitor at Miss Trumball's establishment, preferring it to the Lanchester house, whose girls had a saturnine disposition in his opinion, as if imported from Maine or other gloom-loving provinces.”

Humor Sadness Maine

Book:The Underground Railroad

Source: The Underground Railroad

“Harsh, bitter laughs exploded from her like shrapnel, and she didn’t care who was cut in the process.”

Grief Sadness Grief And Loss Bitterness Shrapnel Bitter Laughs

Book:Poisoned Apple

Source: Poisoned Apple

“Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.”

Sadness Strangers

Book:Outer Dark

Source: Outer Dark

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