Quotes About Emotions

Somehow, I knew how alone he felt, and it gave me shivers to think that alienation could be a shared experience.

I wrote Seventh Heaven for my mother who I miss every day From Facebook post

How can he do this to you?" Shelby says of her father. "I don't care, I have you," Sue says. Shelby says nothing. The fact that she's the high point of someone's life is pathetic. She's probably never loved her mother more than she does at this moment. Maybe she didn't even know what love was before today.

And then, when Kylie looks back at her house, she has the strangest feeling. The house seems lost to her in some way, as though she were looking at a memory, a place she used to live in and will never forget but one she can't go back to, not anymore.

She didn't thank Ben, and she probably should have, but maybe he knows that she's grateful. Maybe he understands that saying thank you can be just as hard as saying good-bye.

Some people believe that if you don't open your eyes to sorrow and you don't talk about it, you can pretend it never happened.

Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens.

I was so unaccustomed to such emotions it took some time before I realized I was happy. The sea was ever changing, ever interesting

For green is love and luck just as it is jealousy and envy

but inside she was broken, made of bones and black ribbons, blood and darkness.

Life is a tragedy.

As long as she lives she will never figure out why it is that some boys refuse to see that somebody loves them.

Those lines in Gillian's face are the most beautiful part about her. They reveal what she's gone through and what she's survived and who exactly she is, deep inside.

if a person doesn't speak her mind she will carry her resentment until it burns her

What was life anyway? Only a continuous vale of sadness and tears.

She was a great beauty, and in his experience that would bring her both good fortune and grief.

Sally didn't believe a word the aunts said. Still she grew nervous from all this talk of death. Her skin became blotchy; her hair lost its shine. She stopped eating and sleeping and she hated to let Michael out of her sight. Now whenever he kissed her, she cried and wished she had never fallen in love in the first place. It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything.

A secret is always hard, a stone wedged just beneath the skin. A constant reminder that won't go away, a secret invokes longing; it takes on a life of its own. In order to keep one well, certain things have to be done backward: Laughter instead of tears, a slow walk when the urge is to run. Always deny what is most important, at least in the presence of others.

The worst thing in the world for a mother is to leave her child. She couldn't bring herself to remember you, because if she did she'd have to leave you behind.

Now whenever he kissed her, she cried and wished she had never fallen in love in the first place. It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did.

Who made it your job to feel guilty for every bad thing that happens?

From then on, I didn't cry when I was disappointed. I just stored up my hurts, as if they were a tower made of fallen stars, invisible to most people, but brightly burning inside of me.

we have to fight them. The best way to do this is to be who you are, every part of you, the good and the bad, the sorrowful and the joyous. You can never run away. There is nowhere to run to. I think your mother knew that in the end, and that is why she came back here to be buried. We are who we are from the start.

She realized it had never been love between them, for you cannot love someone you can never know.