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“My pains, sometimes seem like witch hunters: confess, confess, confess. Like a heavy stone on my rib-cage. Confess to what? And, of course, I would confess, if only I knew what it was they wanted to hear.”

Book:Wild Ink

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“Stef returned her smile. She was so beautiful. So wounded and tough and beautiful on the inside too, and Becca wanted to hold her like that forever until they were both old and wrinkly and lived in a giant house with forty cats. But with her eyes wide, her lips smiling, Stef's body went slack in Becca's arms.”

Tragic Death

Book:#Murderfunding

Source: #Murderfunding

“For a moment, the world moved in slow motion. Becca and Lars tumbling through the air, arcing towards the balcony platform from the force of Lar’s running start off the top of the turret. Becca was over Lars, then under him, then over again as they descended. She couldn’t see anything but Lar’s face smiling at her; then someone grabbed her arm and yanked her away as Lars continued to fall into the gap.”

Self Sacrifice Tragic Death

Book:#Murderfunding

Source: #Murderfunding

“You can't leave me here alone." I whispered, pulling the hand I clasped between my own to my forehead, tears streaming down my face. "This isn't how the story is supposed to end. We've come too far!" I shouted, desperate for someone to tell me I was right.”

Fantasy Young Adult Platonic Love Tragic Death Platonic Relationships

Book:Child of Shadows

Source: Child of Shadows

“But the guilt of outliving those you love is justly to be borne, she thought. Outliving is something we do to them. The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Surviving is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all.”

Death And Dying Survivor S Guilt

Book:The Optimist's Daughter

Source: The Optimist's Daughter

“The Death Eaters were waiting for us,” Harry told her. “We were surrounded the moment we took off — they knew it was tonight — I don’t know what happened to anyone else, four of them chased us, it was all we could do to get away, and then Voldemort caught up with us —” He could hear the self-justifying note in his voice, the plea for her to understand why he did not know what had happened to her sons, but — “Thank goodness you’re all right,” she said, pulling him into a hug he did not feel he deserved. “Haven’t go’ any brandy, have yeh, Molly?” asked Hagrid a little shakily. “Fer medicinal purposes?” She could have summoned it by magic, but as she hurried back toward the crooked house, Harry knew that she wanted to hide her face.”

Love Family Survivor S Guilt Molly Weasley

Author:J.K. Rowling

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