“Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.”

—  Annie Proulx , book The Shipping News

Source: The Shipping News (1993), P. 24

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