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  1. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni _ The Palace of Illusions

    This is the nature of sorrow; often it fades with time, but once in a while it remains lodged below the surface of things, a stubborn thorn beneath a fingernail, making itself felt every time you brush against it. {How well I knew this, for random events would startle me into the memory of a pair of ancient eyes.}
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  2. Aberjhani _ Visions of a Skylark Dressed

    This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.
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  3. Gregory Maguire _ Mirror Mirror

    Hello, this is I, and these are my arms and legs, which are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less than useful, but I've learned how to hump it around, so pay it no mind.
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  4. Gregory Maguire _ Wicked: The Life and Times of

    Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.
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  5. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Dart

    It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
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  6. Jacqueline Carey _ Kushiel's Dart

    It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.
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  7. Stephen King _ Carrie

    True sorrow is as rare as true love.
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  8. George Saunders _ Lincoln in the Bardo

    His mind was freshly inclined toward ; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering {none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood}, and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact; that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would be felt, by scores of others, in all times, in every time, and must not be prolonged or exaggerated, because, in this state, he could be of no help to anyone and, given that his position in the world situated him to be either of great help, or great harm, it would not do to stay low, if he could help it.
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  9. Jon Kabat-Zinn _ Wherever You Go, There You

    We resonate with one another's sorrows because we are interconnected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves. If I become a center of love and kindness in this moment, then in a perhaps small but hardly insignificant way, the world now has a nucleus of love and kindness it lacked the moment before. This benefits me and it benefits others.
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  10. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - although I've come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand. What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. Sorrow inseparable from joy.
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  11. C.S. Lewis _ A Grief Observed

    No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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  12. Sarah J. Maas _ A Court of Thorns and Roses

    Feyre," he said--softly enough that I faced him again. "Why?" He tilted his head to the side. "You dislike our kind on a good day. And after Andras . . ." Even in the darkened hallway, his usual bright eyes were shadowed. "So why?"I took a step closer to him, my blood-covered feet sticking to the rug. I glanced down the stairs to where I could still see the prone form of the faerie and the stumps of his wings."Because I wouldn't want to die alone," I said, and my voice wobbled as I looked at Tamlin again, forcing myself to meet his stare. "Because I'd want someone to hold my hand until the end, and awhile after that. That's something everyone deserves, human or faerie." I swallowed hard, my throat painfully tight. "I regret what I did to Andras," I said, the words so strangled they were no more than a whisper. "I regret that there was . . . such hate in my heart. I wish I could undo it--and . . . I'm sorry. So very sorry.
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