Not exact matches
At the
end of his
story, the coworker bursts into
tears over a DVD he gave her.
Apparently, I do — for decades) But it's the
story at the
end that I tell about her, that had her brimming with
tears of the gentlest kind.
Because I have faith in the soon coming King, because I believe we know how the
story ends — all things restored, all
tears wiped from our eyes, love wins — and because
of the millions
of places where Heaven is already breaking through on earth.
They become apparent when Theo talks about his mother's «visitation» to him in dreams, when Hobie speaks affectionately
of the Catholic Church and the Jesuit priest who protected him as a youth, when the otherwise cynical Boris admits to being moved to
tears by Biblical
stories, and again when Theo opens up to the higher purpose in life, despite all its difficulties and insanities, toward the
end of the novel.
But in telling the
story of unruly Max, who rough - houses with his dog, starts snowball fights with his big sister's friends that
end with him in
tears, and acts out when his mom's attention is diverted by a date, Jonze created perhaps the single best portrait
of the contradictions
of being a kid.
Towards the
end of the title
story in this bleak yet bracing collection, a man delivers a haunting interior monologue about how people cope, or fail to cope, with loss: «Our town is full
of people running back and forth in
torn days and every other town is like that, too.
The Audiophiles help further tell the
story of this city, and by the games
end will leave players with a
tear in their eyes.