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• Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Book, Heart, Eye

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• Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his most primitive desires--wanting and needing. It is a novel about the complex relationships between parents and children, a story of loss and of our unrelenting need for acknowledgment, to be seen as who we are. And in the end it is simply a love story for our time.

  A.M. Homes

  Children, Struggle, Loss

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• We do have to treat people the way Americans always treat people, with the highest level of compassion and care. But they will have to be returned, because that is the law. If you ignore that, if you don't apply that - as heartbreaking as it may be - you are basically telling another 80,000 people to try to come.

  Marco Rubio

  Leadership, Compassion, Reality

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• It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

  Anna Camp

  Thinking, Singing, Vulnerable

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

  William J. Clinton

  Self, People, Doubt

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• It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Thinking, Trying, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

  Annie Lennox

  World

  "I would have been perfect as a man". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 09, 2010.

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• I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

  Rachel McAdams

  Looks, Auditions

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• I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Husband, Alzheimer's, Watches

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• The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

  Lionel Shriver

  Discovery, Humanity, Console

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.78, Counterpoint Press

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• Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of the American Dream, present one brilliant portrait after another.

  Sabina Murray

  Wise, Dream, Book

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• With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memory—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age—are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.

  Dani Shapiro

  Uplifting, Memories, Moving

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• A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human, in every good and awful sense. Perhaps most amazingly of all, Thomas Buergenthal remembers and renders the small mysteries and grand passions of childhood, even a childhood lived under the most horrific circumstances.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Children, Mean, Passion

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• It was heartbreaking . . . I think it was disappointing because I had such an identity in being 'Mrs. Parker', and being a wife, and so when that's taken away from you, you [think], 'Who am I?

  Eva Longoria

  Taken, Divorce, Thinking

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• I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Failing

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.318, ShandonPress

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• I'm in the back of a limousine with Charlie Chaplin and it’s 1928. Charlie is beautiful; his body language seems to skip, and reel and rhyme, heartbreaking and witty at the same time. It seems to promise a better world.

  Geoff Ryman

  Beautiful, Witty, Promise

  Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.167, Small Beer Press

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• With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to find out what happened in the past and what will happen next. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, it is a powerful new work of fiction by an internationally acclaimed writer at the height of his powers.

  Will Schwalbe

  Powerful, Regret, Past

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• Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Book, Writing, Genius

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• I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.

  Louis C. K.

  Stupid, Years, Choices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

  Stockard Channing

  Disappointment, Casting, Hardest

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question.

  J. Robbins

  Voice, Tough Questions, Knows

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

  Carole Keeton

  Grandma, Believe, Appreciate

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• I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me.

  Blake Lively

  Beautiful, Avid, Diving

  Source: collider.com

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• To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harm's way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Home, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.20, Oxford University Press

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• It is heartbreaking to me that I wasn't told the truth. I'm a very loyal guy, and I expect loyalty in return. And lying to me is not an exhibition of loyalty.

  Chris Christie

  Loyalty, Lying, Guy

  Chris Christie's news conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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