Quotes About Emotions

You know it has," she

Kids have strange loyalties.

heard the shattering news about Paloma, he spent another

shelter. "You are a mess." She could almost

happened. And yet, why did she feel

Christophe was so much better, so trusting and so kind. Sam had a sharp edge to him and saw through her.

them. She's much too nice about it, but that's the way she is." Leslie almost said that that was why he loved her, but caught

but you never know with kids. They have strange loyalties for odd reasons

as though you have to have him, run. He won't do you any good.

had an affair." She was

I recommend keeping a diary. Diaries are cool.

The people who know you well are the people who know your vulnerabilities.

What would it be like as an adult to open my eyes with a feeling of even mild anticipation?

Spring and Fall" …cannot be said to be about depression - but of course, to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression. …For some of us, the sadness running under the skin of things begins as a trickle and ends up a hemorrhage, staining everything.

to be awake is to be hauled back into a pained consciousness?

I also recognize, however, that you can talk yourself blue in the face in a therapist's office about crucial failures of love or nurturance with little effect on the inner blackness you carry around with you.

It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy, a certain tattered charm; it was another thing entirely to be depressed in middle age, when you were supposed to have come to terms with life's failings, as well as your own.

I'll be seeing you later, Millie," and Mildred had nodded and not needed to blink back tears because those tears were so deep inside of her that it would take years for the grief to make its way to her eyes.

all mothers have to learn that—to let go of their children.  It always hurts, and then you reach that point where you have to let go of yourself, too.  Let go of yourself as a mother. That part is a surprise

It's so messed up how little control we have over whether we want somebody.

Nothing makes you get down on yourself and worry that you're undesirable like rejection, so having someone desirable desire you is the ultimate antidote.

I'm positive I wouldn't consider having sex with Guy if I hadn't already had sex beforehand. I always knew I wanted my first time to be with someone I loved and who loved me, which it was . . . but shouldn't I want that for every time? I disagree with what Amy said about how once you go all the way, you can't go back to "everything but." But now that I have done it, it doesn't seem nearly as big a deal to do it again.

It's sick how you can be intimate with someone one minute and then be furious with that same person the next.

In neuroscience, our textbook showed how the brain scans of people newly in love look a lot like the brain scans of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In each case, your dopamine is suppressing your serotonin.