Quotes About Emotions

I hope you're happy, she said to Mrs. James. Happiness is for fools. Helena James shrugged. So I wish that for you.

You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed. For that, and for a thousand other things, I send my gratitude.

she clutched her purse and was completely composed, gracefully accepting people's sympathies, but when they started to shovel the dirt over old dick's coffin she began to weep, and her grief was strong enough to chase the sparrows from the trees.

I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy.

Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft.

As Gary understands it, the greatest portion of grief is the one you dish out for yourself, and he and Sally have both served themselves from the same table tonight, the only difference being that he knows what he's missing, and she has no idea what is causing her to cry as she drives down the Turnpike.

When a person accepted a gift from someone, she was accepting the way the giver felt about her as well, any fool knew that.

You are the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all we needed.

Like his father before him he had come to love being on land and spent most days in the garden, where he grew vegetables and kept bees that were known for honey that was so sweet strong men cried when they tasted it.

I had been blind to the pain of others until I had my own burden to carry.

This is your heart that you hold in your hands, be careful with it, don't lose it, and don't forget that I loved you the same way even though you weren't born to me.

Frances was sulky and suspicious, while Jet was kindhearted and so sensitive that a negative remark could make her break into hives.

You lose people sometimes, you know. You don't expect to, but then it happens and you can't get them back.

Real love was dangerous. It got you from inside and held on tight. And if you didn't let go fast enough you might be willing to do anything for its sake.

A familiar is such a creature, an animal or bird that sees inside to the very soul of its human companion, and knows what others might not. What fears there might be, and what joys, for it shares the emotions of its human partner.

I have wondered all my life what I am made of, if there is straw inside of me, or a beating heart, or if I simply burned for all I did not have.

there was a distance between us. Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

Love is not always under our control

On evenings when the orange moon was rising in the sky, and some woman was crying in their kitchen, Sally and Gillian would lock pinkies and vow never to be ruled by their passions.

How had love come to this? This twisted dark place. The phone calls, the fear, the look on his face when he drove by the house.

He wondered if what people said was true, that no one could hate you more than members of your own family.

She had told me often enough to keep my mouth shut, and now I did exactly that. I abolished all language on the day of my father's funeral.

You didn't have to be cursed in love to know that when you loved someone you were open to great loss.

But love was not about practice or preparation, it was pure chance; if you took your time with it you ran the risk of having it evaporate before it had even begun.