Quotes About Emotions

Is it possible faith in God over our future must outweigh our feelings in the things of today? And maybe there are lots of types of forgiveness just like there are lots of kinds of love.

The last thing she needed to do was start a difficult conversation without knowing her own mind and heart.

De enige functie van de liefde is ons te helpen de wrede en eindeloze zondagnamiddagen te verdragen, die ons verwonden voor de rest van de week - en voor de eeuwigheid.

True love is rarely convenient. It usually strikes at the most inopportune moments. Rather like lightening. There's never a good time to be hit by that either. Bam. Too late to argue.

All over the world, approximately every five seconds, another perfectly intelligent woman gets sucked in like this, the victim of maternal instincts or female hormones, or maybe just a heart that keeps overruling her head.

When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.

That was true, at least. He cared about Felicity—he just didn't understand her.

but in spite of all that we still loved each other. You can't switch those feelings off.

rant to Yasmin as I thump out the text message to my boyfriend Stuart.

Maybe it's been a gradual thing over the years, the gentle eroding of their love, like seawater over a pebble... She can't even pinpoint the exact moment it changed. But it seems the stronger she gets the weaker their relationship becomes

Over a decade since her heart was not just broken but crushed, so why can't she get over it? Ben doesn't understand; she knows he's been in love before and got hurt, but he was able to let go of his pain and move forward. Why can't I?

Fear pierces her heart. She hates it when Wesley gets mad. Not that he's ever hurt her. He'd never do that. He doesn't even shout at her, not really. It's more the resigned disappointment followed by the silent treatment that he stretches out like an elastic band, getting tauter and tauter until she can bear it no more

Le persone che amiamo possono esserci portate via in un battito di ciglia. All'improvviso. Senza nessun avvertimento.

It escalates, as it always does. Who knows what the neighbours must think. Stuart yells, I scream, he throws my vase full of flowers at the wall so that it shatters into a zillion pieces, sending water and petals everywhere.

I should leave Stuart. I have tried. On numerous occasions. But I'm a coward, I guess. Despite everything, I love him. When he's not in a temper he's the sweetest man. He makes me feel protected and safe. And it's not as though he beats me up.

Hi babe. Andrew's being difficult about next weekend. I'm so angry! He said he's not sure he can let me have the time off to go to Edinburgh. What an arsehole. I SO hope he dies!

Caretaking is never about the other person. It's about wanting to feel needed because you're afraid you're not wanted.

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

Ever cried when you don't know what you're crying about? It's intense, and it's miserable, but oddly soothing at the same time. You're curled up in your bed, huddled under the duvet, and you're silently sobbing in the safety of your cocoon. That's

There is a word that shrinks love using. It is 'resilient'. The idea seems to be that some people, better people, have thick outer shells and don't let things bother them. Don't let the voices in.

Neither one of us talks, the way people sometimes don't when they are happy – but as soon as I have this thought, I realise its opposite is also true.

Where there's a secret,' she says, 'there's shame – and shame is something we can do without.

Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people.

That was the problem with women falling out of love; the veil of romance fell away from their eyes, and they looked in and could read you.