Gunslinger Girl/Tear Jerker

"Claes: "Have you ever been tremendously sad, but the tears won't come out?" Jean: "Sure...it happens." Claes: "That's how I feel right now. My heart is overflowing with tears, but they just won't come out of my eyes. At night when I'm asleep, they quietly spill out onto the pillow without my noticing.""
 * Numerous portions of Gunslinger Girl, especially the backstories of the titular assassins, make almost any reader cry, cringe, or both.  Of course the mental disintegration of the kids is not easy to watch either -- and neither is
 * Triela's eventual discovery of how she and her handler came to the "Social Welfare Department", and how they choose to face her approaching mortality.
 * This scene from "A Day in the Life of Claes"


 * Especially at the end with a rendition of "Scarborough Fair".
 * Henrietta
 * This was made more poignant by the fact that