“Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.”

“She attracted people to her; she had presence, an uncommon. Documenting her effect on her habitat, a naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness: strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride.”

“Mary sheds tears because men call her "The Mother of God."”

“Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.”

“Only then, invisible to everyone and with her curtains drawn, did she allow her tears to fall: in love, and for his hurts, and in terrible pride.”

“Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.”

“I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.”

“She look'd down to blush, and she look'd up to sigh,
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.”

“He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.”

“The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.”