The Wheel of Time/Tear Jerker

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  • When Elder Haman is marking all the waygates for Rand and begins crying on the map for all of the Ogier cities and groves lost. This troper teared up.
  • Aram's death in Knife of Dreams. I think I've got something in my eye...
  • Verin's death in The Gathering Storm.
  • Aviendha's vision of the future Aiel in Towers of midnight. A supremely epic vision of the degradation and fall of your honorable people, all fated to happen and caused by your descendents. The reader cannot help but feel for her and weep.
  • Aviendha's Slap Slap Kiss version of the Anguished Declaration of Love:

"Yes, Rand al'Thor." She suddenly sounded hoarse. For a moment she turned her face away, eyes shut and quivering. "I hate you with all of my heart. I do. And I always will."

    • This doesn't sound like much until you remember what Aviendha is feeling. She is in love with him, but her BFF Elayne also loves him, and she promised Elayne she would safeguard him from the claws of other women. Now she is the other woman. Poor thing probably hates herself--and that's before we factor in the whole Proud Warrior Race thing.
  • The funeral, I think in The Gathering Storm. Faile and her retainers coming together one night to remember the Mera'din Aiel who watched over and protected each of them in Malden, ultimately at the cost of their own lives.
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