Quotes About Emotions

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

I, um, I have this problem. I broke up with my boyfriend, you see. And I'm pretty upset about it, so I wanted to talk to my best friend. [...] The thing is, they're both you.

I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.

How do you know what a rock star feels like, Ada May? Have you ever been a rock star? I don't think so,' Beth Ann said. 'I was just guessing.' 'Well, not me. I'm not saying I feel like something when I don't have any idea what that feels like and neither do you.

I guess sometimes it takes a while for the heart to get the memo from the brain.

The point is, feelings can change - and often do - abruptly. It's one of the riskiest aspects of falling for someone, especially during these tumultuous years when we're young and restless.

These guys may not talk too much about relationships, but they sure do blush at telling moments, don't they? Maybe that's the key to understanding the opposite sex; I could invent a science, call it blushology.

Guys do have a language, and it does express emotion with startling clarity and nuance. The idea that they don't express their feelings is as absurd as traveling to a foreign country and claiming the natives can't speak simply because you don't understand what they're saying.

Em knows how to nurse a grudge. She doesn't act out, doesn't yell or cry or throw things. She just quietly removes you from the circle of people she trusts. Once you cross that line with Em, there's no going back.

Child, I have been around a lot of years, and if you don't laugh, you cry.

There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.

I suppose love falls where it falls.' 'Generally, one can see it toppling from afar, and make an effort to get out of the way.

You can weep over each other's hidden nobility when we're safe!

West stared at her as she trudged off up the hill after the Northmen, hardly able to believe his ears. She was happy to bed that stinking savage, but he was too angry? It was so unfair he almost choked on his rage.

Funny how a person hung on to things that weren't of no use at all but then those were the things that pierced the soul when a body lost them.

Love is a strange animal. You can't always tame it and make it behave the way you want it to. For years, I thought I could. I thought I could use love the way I used lipstick and perfume. Just to get what I wanted. But real love isn't that way. Real love bangs you around and makes you do things you never thought you would do.

There are times for growing stronger and times for comforting, and sometimes both times see a few tears.