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Quotes About Emotions

I only know how to be cruel or to laugh when I am discomposed.
~ Holly Black
The problem with coming through something terrible and big is that afterward, you're left feeling all the feelings that you shoved down and pushed away. For many long days, I have been terrified, and now, when I ought to be feeling great, what i want to do is hide under a table in the brugh with Cardan until i can finally convince myself he's all right.
~ Holly Black
An unhappy childhood is supposed to make you grow up fast, but I still feel like a kid a lot of the time.
~ Holly Black
But for a moment it felt good to be awful, like looking down on the world from some great height.
~ Holly Black
You hate the Folk." Taryn's eyes flash as she spins her sword in an elegant strike. "You never cared about Locke. He was just another thing to take from Cardan.
~ Holly Black
Perhaps you shouldn't trust me with your heart. I might break it.
~ Holly Black
Scared, silly-scared, scared, scared, scared," Lutie chanted against her neck.
~ Holly Black
I take a deep breath, at home and homesick all at the same time.
~ Holly Black
Jude and I had a misunderstanding," Cardan says carefully. "But we're not enemies. And I am not your enemy, either, Taryn." "You think everything's a game," she says. "You and Locke." "Unlike Locke, I never thought love was a game," he says. "You may accuse me of much, but not that.
~ Holly Black
The problem with coming through something terrible and big is that afterward, you're left feeling all the feelings that you shoved down and pushed away. For many long days, I have been terrified, and now, when I ought to be feeling great, what I want to do is hide under a table in the brugh with Cardan until I can finally convince myself he's all right. And maybe make out with his face, if he's feeling up to that.
~ Holly Black
Fine, fine, everyone's fine," said the vampire, a mad gleam in his red eyes, crossing his arms over his chest as Bela Lugosi did in black-and-white films. "Fine as scattered pieces of sand." She wondered how much effort it had taken him to talk to her the way he had—to, what was it he'd said? Keeping my thoughts clearly ordered—and how crazy he was going to be now, as a result of that strain.
~ Holly Black
We don't need her!' Oak shouts, the first time I have really seen his emotions out of his control. 'And I don't want her.' The words hurt, the more because he cannot lie.
~ Holly Black
You could totally like Tamara -" - Jasper "What does it matter?" Call exploded... "Don't you get it? It doesn't matter. She'll always like Aaron better." Jasper's eyes widened. "Whoa," he said. "Looks like I hit on an awkward truth here.
~ Holly Black
I don't feel calm at all. I am a maelstrom of emotions. All I want to do is scream.
~ Holly Black
I feel the stitches holding me together as though I am a rag doll with stuffing trying to leak out.
~ Holly Black
Oh, yeah?" Chris says. "Maybe you should tell your friends that you're an emotion worker instead of hiding it. Do you think they'll listen to you then?" ... "How could you do this to me?" - Daneca "It's not my fault you're a liar." - Chris
~ Holly Black
You don't believe that I could care about you, even after you betrayed me?' He watches me with his cat eyes. 'I'm still your father.' 'You're my father's murderer,' I blurt out. 'I can be both,' Madoc says, smiling, showing those teeth. I tried to rattle him, but I succeeded only in rattling myself.
~ Holly Black
The prince opens his tawny fox eyes and looks around. When he sees me, he slumps back down, as though relieved that I am still here.
~ Holly Black
I keep thinking of the lazy blink of Cardan's lashes over his coal-bright eyes. He looked gleeful, gloating, as though my fist tightening on his shirt was exactly what he would have wished. As though, if I struck him, it would be because he had made me do it.
~ Holly Black
I was anguished seeing your blushes and shining eyes. Jealousy wasn't a spice to me then. It was the whole meal and I was gagging it down.
~ Holly Black
hurt more easily than anything nice.
~ Holly Black
My heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world.
~ Holly Black
Cardan lies on the rug with one arm propping up his head and the other slung across Jude's waist. He understands everything and nothing he sees on the screen- just as he understands everything and nothing about being here with her family. He feels like a feral cat that might bite out of habit.
~ Holly Black
I do have a bad habit," he says. "of falling in love. With regularity and to spectacular effect. You see, it never goes well.
~ Holly Black