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Quotes About Emotions

Everyone makes mistakes. They trust the wrong people. They fall in love.
~ Holly Black
I like stories,' he said. 'And perhaps I like you as well.
~ Holly Black
I am kind of in control and out of control at the same time.
~ Holly Black
What do you think he did to me to deserve to die?' I ask. He stokes the fire. Sparks fly up. 'I assumed he broke your heart. An eye for an eye, a heart for a heart.
~ Holly Black
She turned to me, head tilted, her expression pure confusion. As though I had no reason to be afraid of a broken heart. She had no idea how dangerous a broken heart could be.
~ Holly Black
You really hate me, don't you?" he asks, his smile growing. "Almost as much as you hate me
~ Holly Black
Will you tell me how you came to be living…" He stops, as if trying to find the words. "As you were." I remember the care I'd given that he not know. How could I explain the way time seemed to slip from my fingers, the way I became incrementally more detached, more unable to reach out a hand to take anything I wanted?
~ Holly Black
Pasé gran parte de mi vida cuidando mi corazón. Lo guardé tan bien que podía comportarme como si no tuviera ninguno. Incluso ahora, es una cosa raída, carcomida y escabrosa. Pero es tuyo
~ Holly Black
For the first time, I see the panic on his face, the sort that he ought to have felt all along. Too late, and part of him knows it. But he denies it a moment later, the knowledge surfacing and being shoved back down. Some things seem too terrible to seem possible.
~ Holly Black
Have I told you how hideous you look tonight? No. Tell me I cannot.
~ Holly Black
As I gaze at him now, stretched out on my bed, I feel more off balance than ever.
~ Holly Black
I am surprised when he turns to me, eyes blazing. It feels as though the room is empty but for us. He lifts his glass anew, mouth curving in to a mockery of a smile. 'And to Jude, who gave me a gift tonight. One that I plan to repay in kind.' I try not to visibly flinch as glasses lift around me.
~ Holly Black
For me, who has been so much alone, it feels like drowning in a deluge of sights and sounds and smells.
~ Holly Black
Kill him, a part of me says, a part I remember from the night I took him captive. Kill him before he makes you love him.
~ Holly Black
But when you were gone-truly gone beneath the waves-I hated myself as I never have before.
~ Holly Black
I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your heart beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy." He looks at me. "Is that right? It would explain much about your kind if it's possible to mistake the two.
~ Holly Black
However secretive his nature, however foolish his reasons for loving his father, I like that he does.
~ Holly Black
The Roach clasps his hand on the back of my neck with a laugh. 'You did good, kid, you know that? You came out of the sea even tougher than you went in.' I have to look down because I am surprised by how much I wanted to hear someone say that. When I glance back up, Cardan is watching me carefully. He looks stricken. I shake my head, to keep him from saying whatever he's thinking.
~ Holly Black
Hey, Hazel?" he called softly in the upstairs hall, and she turned. "What did he kiss like?" There was a confusion of emotions on his face—longing and maybe a little jealousy and a whole lot of curiosity. She snorted a surprised laugh, her bad mood dissolving. "Like he was a shark and I was blood in the water." "That good?" he asked, grinning.
~ Holly Black
I want to feel more, but every time I look at it, I feel less.
~ Holly Black
You don't have to stay angry because if you don't, there's a bottomless well of fear ready to open up under you.
~ Holly Black
But for one final night, he's the father I remember best
~ Holly Black
Sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people close to us,' Vivi said, 'than to be mad at the people who deserve it.
~ Holly Black
Right then, I feel as though he sees everything—every hope of my heart, every stray thought I've had before falling into an exhausted sleep each dawn.
~ Holly Black