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Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.

Jodi Picoult

Baby, Pain, Eye

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Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.

Stephenie Meyer

Blood, Hands, Pulse

Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.60, Hachette UK

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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Mark Twain

Spring, Heart, Names

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.193, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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Finally, I began to write about becoming an older woman and the trepidation it stirred. The small, telling "betrayals" of my body. The stalled, eerie stillness in my writing, accompanied by an ache for some unlived destiny. I wrote about the raw, unsettled feelings coursing through me, the need to divest and relocate, the urge to radically simplify and distill life into a new, unknown meaning.

Sue Monk Kidd

Betrayal, Writing, Destiny

Ann Kidd Taylor, Sue Monk Kidd (2011). “Travelling with Pomegranates”, p.14, Hachette UK

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Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Hurt, Tears, Doe

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It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was.

Lorrie Moore

Doors, Sinking Feeling, Missing

Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me.

Nicholas Sparks

Night, Way, Return

Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.24, Hachette UK

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Because I’ve lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch. I know what it’s like to have the powers of a god and to not be able to hold the one thing that means the most to me. And if you think for one minute that I would ever serve that to another being, even Artemis, who I’d like to torture for eternity, then go ahead and call down your army on me. I would deserve whatever death they give. (Sin)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Children, Heart, Mean

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.62, Macmillan

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The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Pain, Distance, Heart

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The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

Maureen Johnson

Cheating, Thinking, Done

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There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.

Elizabeth Chandler

Running, Sweet, Hurt

Elizabeth Chandler (1999). “I Do”, Bantam Books for Young Readers

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You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Giving Up, Father, Grief

"A Stroke of Midnight". Book by Laurell K. Hamilton, 2005.

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Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

Sidney Sheldon

Loneliness, Solitude, Jamie

Sidney Sheldon (2012). “Master of the Game”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

Kate Winslet

Heart, Joy, Heart Ache

Song: What If

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he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.

Melina Marchetta

Dream, Path, Unfulfilled Dreams

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They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't." Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

Jennifer Egan

Eye, Thoughtful, Men

Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.274, Anchor

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It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

Deb Caletti

Made

Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks on the sea. He'd felt the need before, often, often, in their years apart. But why now? She was safe; he knew where she was - was it only the exhaustion of the past weeks and days, or perhaps the weakness of creeping age that made his bones ache, as though she had in fact been torn from his body, as God had made Eve from Adam's rib?

Diana Gabaldon

Past, Years, Sea

Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.2151, Delacorte Press

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You mostly.” Her hands went still again as her eyes stared off into the past with a look so wistful it made me ache for her. “The boys tended to take care of each other but you were too much for anyone else to handle.” I poked at the ball of yarn avoiding her eyes. “I wasn’t that bad.” She smiled. “You broke Ethan’s arm.” “It was self-defense. He wouldn’t let go of my foot.” “He was helping you tie your shoe.

Rachel Vincent

Letting Go, Eye, Boys

Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.132, MIRA

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He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.

Thomas Hardy

Eye, Heart, Thinking

Thomas Hardy (2012). “Jude the Obscure”, p.220, Courier Corporation

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For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.

Iain Pears

Contentment, Want, Firsts

Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.147, Penguin

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When we kissed, it didn't matter that I had been a wolf hours ago, or that I would be a wolf again. It didn't matter that a thousand snares were laid for us as soon as we left this moment. All that mattered was this: our noses touching, the softness of his mouth, the ache inside me.

Maggie Stiefvater

Touching, Would Be, Noses

Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Forever”, p.137, Scholastic Inc.

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Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.

Laini Taylor

Skeletons, Self, Sky

Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.40, Scholastic Inc.

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How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.

Carolyn Parkhurst

Pain, Betrayal, Lying

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There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

Leo Tolstoy

Heart, Successful, Hands

Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.45, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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