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"For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad."
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"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."
"Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?"
"In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking."
"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet... I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me."
"Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage."
"Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul."
"My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!"
"Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here."
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"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."
"Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior."
"I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.And then Dante came along."
"Did you hear me, Zach? I care about you. 'Okay, I said. 'It's okay with me that you care about me. But can we please not talk about it? Would that be okay with you? 'Yeah, that would be okay, he said."
"I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was."
"Ad we interviewing each other?Something like that.What position am I applying for?Best friend.I thought I already had the job.Don't be so sure, you arrogant son of a bitch."
"Everyone was always becoming someone else.Sometimes, when you were older, you became someone younger. And me, I felt old. How can aguy who's about to turn seventeen feel old?"
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