Eleanor

“I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“What if this cursed hand were thicker than itself with brother's blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens to wash it white as snow?”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“They haven't made a drug that can touch this pain," Clarence said. "I feel like I'm made of pain.”
― Peter Ames Carlin, Bruce

“After this, I couldn't hear their voices any longer; for in my ears I heard a sound like a bird's wings flapping in panic. Perhaps it was my heart, I don't know. But if you've ever seen a bird trapped inside the great hall of a temple, looking for some way out, well, that was how my mind was reacting. It had never occurred to me that my mother wouldn't simply go on being sick. I won't say I'd never wondered what might happen if she should die; I did wonder about it, in the same way I wondered what might happen if our house were swallowed up in an earthquake. There could hardly be life after such an event.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha