"Faces etched in agony"
-describing people during turmoil, from a devotional in my Bible
"These pretty superlatives, dropping glibly from the tongue, vitiate the taste and create a kind of sickly delicacy that turns away from simple unadorned truth..."
-Mary Wollstonecraft on A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
"It was a night when sorrow may come to the brightest without causing any great sense of incongruity: when, with impressible persons, love becomes solicitousness, hope sinks to misgiving, and faith to hope: when the exercise of memory does not stir feelings of regret at opportunities for ambition that have been passed by, and anticipation does not prompt to enterprise."
- Far From the Madding Crowd; describing the setting outside of the barracks, where a poorly woman-madly in love-has ventured several miles to speak with her lover.
"I have lived on the lip of sanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside."
-Rumi
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