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“Food became the antidote for feelings of guilt, sadness, and anger. ... Food is a resolution to controversy; food is rescue. We ate and talked and cried and laughed in the kitchen and ate again. This was about more than just food. It was about our mom making connections the best she could and in the way she knew best across the kitchen table, across time and across sadness.”

Way Feelings Family Sadness Food Mom Eating Connections Tables Guilt Meals Kitchen Resolution Laughed Rescue Cried Controversy Antidote Kitchen Table Sadness And Anger

Author:Rose Quiello

“I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.”

Sadness Emptiness Cried

Author:Daul Kim

“I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.”

Thinking Sleep Sadness Cried Spine Sad Life Sadness Of Life

Author:Conor Oberst

“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from a chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.”

Ends Realizing Laughing Sadness Machines Madness Corners Someday Continents Cried Rolling Pinball

Book:On the Road: The Original Scroll: The Original Scroll

Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll: The Original Scroll

“He said, ‘The moment I began to love you was the moment when you saw your fiddle smashed on the ground, and you turned away from me and cried against your horse. Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don’t you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening.”

Said Moments Beautiful My Own Saws Sadness Love You Horse Frightening Cried Fiddle

Book:Fire

Source: Fire

“More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.”

Feels Might Pain Felt Sadness Injustice Dues Cried Foreheads Loving Someone Unfairness

Book:Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behind… She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it was only a parting, and Bitterblue had not wept like this even over a death. ‘Don’t be ashamed,' Po whispered. ‘Your sadness is dear to me. Don’t be frightened. I won’t die, Katsa. I won’t die, and we’ll meet again.”

Children Helping Dies Behinds Sadness Tears Dear Shoulders Ashamed Frightened Cried Parting Katsa

Book:Graceling

Source: Graceling

“His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.”

“I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them down, to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them.”

Way Needs May Persons Used Grief Sadness Cry Listening I Realized Passing Passings Cried Another Way Find Me Old Days Just Listen Tissues

Book:Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition

“If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?”

Ifs Sadness Regret Rivers Confession Cried Shallow

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.”

Three Sadness Cried Swear Thug

Author:The Notorious B.I.G.

“My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.”

Mother Five Sadness Cry Died Neighbor Cried Mother Died

Author:Madonna Ciccone