Can I ask if you've ever been tearful over a quote?

[ArmsClary]

I'm reading 1984 for the first time (I know, better late than never). Please no spoilers

I've just come across the line "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." and it's made me really tearful

Now, I'm a little hormonal at present but it just got me wondering has a line from a book ever had this effect on you?

I'm probably going to be really disappointed once the outcome/context of this line is revealed further on but for now, I'll enjoy it!

Love My tears had blinded me ☘️

"Daddy, my daddy" (of course!)

"Wept for them all" (The Gate to Women's Country by Sheri Tepper, probably no impact without the whole book)

"Good night, children - everywhere." (Uncle Mac signing off the old radio Children's Hour, so tender)

It’s taken my two years of reading The Paper Dolls to DD at bedtime to not crack at the end when the boy snips the paper dolls and “they were gone forever.....and the pieces flew into the little girl’s memory, where they found white mice and fireworks, and a starfish soap, and a kind granny....”.

Grief is the price we pay for love

Some weeks after my husband died, a close friend gave me a copy of To One Who Died by Takamura Kotaro. I find myself reading it again around the anniversary each year. His death was so shocking, so full of pain and guilt. This bit makes me cry -

'You are here, you are still here,
You become everything and fill me,
Although I feel unworthy of your love,
Your love ignores all and folds me into itself.'

“And then Bella did something very kind”
Dogger

@NoZoomAtTheInn

‘I heard the doctor tell them I was dying,’ replied the child with a faint smile. ‘I am very glad to see you, dear; but don’t stop, don’t stop!’

‘Yes, yes, I will, to say good-b’ye to you,’ replied Oliver. ‘I shall see you again, Dick. I know I shall! You will be well and happy!’

‘I hope so,’ replied the child. ‘After I am dead, but not before. I know the doctor must be right, Oliver, because I dream so much of Heaven, and Angels, and kind faces that I never see when I am awake. Kiss me,’ said the child, climbing up the low gate, and flinging his little arms round Oliver’s neck. ‘Good-b’ye, dear! God bless you!’

The blessing was from a young child’s lips, but it was the first that Oliver had ever heard invoked upon his head; and through the struggles and sufferings, and troubles and changes, of his after life, he never once forgot it. - Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

Terrible reminder that there were women who slowly starved countless children to death

Can you elaborate?

"That's my boy! That's my boy!" Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

hagotcha. Do you mean elaborate on the women who starved children to death?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_farming

The old rabbi placed the letter down on the table in front of him. He had read it every day for the last ten years.

That last line of Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - when the little boy is imagining what his life would have been like if his father hadn't been at the Twin Towers that fateful day - he imagines a normal ordinary happy day, and ends up saying "We would have been safe."

The end of Hey Nostradamus - Doug Coupland. Reg, a main character's over religious father, laments his parenting and how he treated his missing son: he says he will tie his apology letter/confession to his son on every tree until he finds it.

“And when you do find this letter, you know what? Something extraordinary will happen. It will be like a reverse solar eclipse - the sun will start shining down in the middle of the night, imagine that! - and when I see this sunlight it will be my signal to go running out into the streets, and I'll shout over and over, "Awake! Awake! The son of mine who once was lost has now been found!" I'll pound on every door in the city, and my cry will ring true: "Awake! Everyone listen, there has been a miracle - my son who once was dead is now alive. Rejoice! All of you! Rejoice! You must! My son is coming home!”

I don't know why it makes me cry so much but it always does - the fact that his father realises his mistakes too late, all the time wasted, the fact it's probably hopeless and his son is already dead - he just doesn't know it as he and another character are left in limbo without a body to bury (whereas the reader is clued in to his fate already) the fact that it has tones of the prodigal son, the fact that he is showing unconditional love and emotion for the first time. It just makes me cry.

@Xoxoxoxoxoxox

"Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing" ~ A. A. Milne.

Brings back a lot of memories of reading to the children when they were little.

Makes me weep.

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”

From Alice in Wonderland. I read it at a time when a friend's son was in the very final stages of leukemia and was so frail and exhausted. Still reduces me to tears just thinking about it

@highlandcoo

"Daddy, my Daddy!" in The Railway Children is fairly heart-wrenching.

Ever since my Dad died suddenly, 13 years ago now, this makes me weep.

@DancelikeEmmaGoldman

From Mary Oliver’s In Blackwater Woods. Those last lines make my bones shake with sadness.

”To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.”

@DancelikeEmmaGoldman, I had my much beloved old dog put to sleep last week and this quote has made me sob like a baby.

"I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”

The fault in our stars, John Green

‘Count Vorkosigan, sir’ from Cryoburn, by Lois McMaster Bujold.

The line with which the main character, Miles, learns his father has died and he is now Count Vorkosigan, instead of Lord Vorkosigan, the heir.

I read the book the year after my father died, and that line still makes me weep. The sentence where your world is changed forever.

These are are so moving especially
@doctorhamster your quote, I'm crying.
One of Shakespeare's sonnets gets me every time, I think it's 71. I'm sorry I can't remember the exact words but it's about death and how the writer, when they die, would rather be forgotten than to cause pain to who they leave behind.
Also I recently found my old fairy tale book and I literally cried reading The Little Match Girl. This was one of my favourites as a child, the pictures were lovely but I didn't fully get that she died at the end and how tragic the story is.
Off to have another blub now😢

From The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas:

Despite the chaos that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.” Their lost voices must continue to be heard.

@JengaNonConfirming Im sorry to hear about your dog, I hope you're okay. I know how heartbreaking that is

'I was lost, I was scared, but a story lead me home again' from Tiddler, made me shed a tear.

Yes, it's a children's story. To this day I don't know why it made me so emotional that a lost fish who told tall tales found his way home 😂

Maybe because it's similar to Finding Nemo. Then again I've cried at less.

@FTMF30

"Everywhere I go, there I am."

Said in Ozark regarding a character's brother having nowhere suitable to go to keep out of trouble. He has bipolar and his sister was desperately trying to bundle him off somewhere to prevent him being a liability.

This storyline had me sobbing

[quote Tomcullenisahero]@JengaNonConfirming Im sorry to hear about your dog, I hope you're okay. I know how heartbreaking that is[/quote]
Thank you. Its been a week and so I'm very much at the still quite weepy stage. Many of these quotes are beautiful and have reminded how worth the pain the love was.

‘Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself’. From the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse.
I had PND following my second son. He has no idea but I can’t believe I thought I didn’t love him for all those months and that he was a mistake. So so hard to forgive myself even now.