Quotes About Emotions

When Larten heard that Alicia had married, he felt both jealousy and delight. A selfish part of him had hoped she'd mourn for him the rest of her life. But mostly he was happy that she'd found someone who could give her all that he had failed to provide.

I don't suppose you kept anything of hers, did you? Such as? A lock of hair, a knife which was dear to her, a scrap of her clothes? Vampires do not indulge in such foolishness, he said gruffly. They should, Evanna sighed.

Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.

All the power in the universe means nothing if you can't be with the one you love.

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I said: You don't want to pick a fight with me, Mimi. She looked at me as if she were going to say I love you, and asked: Is that a threat?

Dorothy asked timidly: Did his wife say anything? She sent her love to you. Nora said: Stop being nasty.

Gilbert said: "I read somewhere that when habitual criminals are accused of things they didn't do—even little things—they're much more upset by it than other people would be. Do you think that's so, Mr. Charles?" "It's likely.

Emotions are useless during business hours...

I suppose you'll see her. You'll be disappointed at first. Then without being able to say how or when it happened, you'll find you've forgotten your disappointment, and the first thing you know you'll be telling her your life's history, and all your troubles and hopes.

She jealous?" I asked before he could go on with his shouting. "And if you don't yell maybe I'll be able to hear you anyway. My deafness is a lot better since I've been eating yeast.

Men have thought me beautiful and I have played with them. Women are like that. Men have loved me, and doing what I liked with them, I have found men contemptible. And then comes this little fat detective whose name I don't know, and he acts as if i were a hag - an old squaw. Can I help then being piqued into some sort of feeling for him? Women are like that.

It's a long while since I burst out crying because policemen didn't like me.

She's being stupid and she's sure she's being very clever, and that's a nuisance, but I don't think I hate her.

She's been sulking for a week. If I didn't drink I'd go crazy." "What's she sulking about?" "About my drinking.

Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.

Molly and Teacher eyed each other in the manner of two young women who will never, ever, be great friends.

Eventually the man concludes that for some reason you periodically have a massive internal buildup of feelings that must be released in the direction of another human being. He adopts a strategy of monitoring these releases for key words or phrases indicating a problem that he might have to do something about, such as "fire," "internal bleeding," or "district attorney

FATHER: What's the matter, Son? SON (bursting into tears): Oh Dad, I struck out and lost the big game. (Sobs.) FATHER (putting his arm around the boy's shoulders): Hey! Forget it! Let's have a nice cold can of Bite the Wax Tadpole! SON: And then I murdered a policeman.

In Toronto, fans applaud; in Vancouver, they cheer; but in Calgary, they howl hair-raising, guttural paroxysms of zeal.

Laugh and the world laughs with you (unless you're at a funeral), cry and you cry alone.

I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I'd lose my mind.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.