Quotes About Emotions

You can tell a lot about a person based on the pages he or she journals on

The car can smile all it wants, but that doesn't mean you can see the driver's expression.

Love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all

Distancia. Me dices que me alejo y yo balbuceo una disculpa, intento volver al presente. Pero hay algo que debería decirte: Incluso cuando me distancio, me preocupo por ti. Uno puede separarse de algo y seguir cuidando de ello. Si quisiera distanciarme por completo, me largaría. Pararía la conversación. Me marcharía de la cama. En su lugar, simplemente me abstraigo durante un momento. Miro en otra dirección. Pero mi mirada siempre vuelve a posarse en ti.

I love being with you and Joni and the rest of the group. I love being a part of that. But I can never really enjoy it, because I know that at the end, I'll be back here. Sometimes I can forget, and when I can forget, it's bliss. But this past week has been hell. It's like I've been pushed back into the shape of this person I used to be. And I don't fit into the old shape anymore. I don't fit.

When I saw you today -- I didn't know I'd been waiting for you until you were there. And then all of the waiitng rushed through me in a second. That's something .... but I don't know if it's certainty.

I could relate to Miss Lucy because her life made absolutely no sense.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be. It's almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

Maybe there is something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.

Now I know: Love isn't so straightforward. It's never a matter of telling yourself to do it and doing it. It's never a matter of someone else telling you to do it and doing it. It can't exist between two people if they can't also feel it exist outside of them, too. It can involve hurt, but it shouldn't make you hurt all the time. Then it's not love. It's a trap disguised as love. -Rhiannon

Because this is only going to get worse," she said. "So we must buck up, put on a kind face, and get on with it." "Get on with what?" "Life. In all its bittersweet glory.

loss takes as much as love does, sometimes more

I tried to shut myself down completely, put up my best screensaver personality to coast through the day. I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

I'm talking about emotional intimacy, not physical. Acknowledging how you really feel, who you really are. Opening up your soul to another person. There's nothing scarier.

Bur I guess the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead.

But as i've told him a million times, when it comes to true dancing, it doesn't matter what you look like-it's all about the joy you feel.

And still, for all the jealousy, all the doubt, sometimes I will be struck with a kind of awe that we're together.

epithet, n. I think the worst you ever called me was a cunt rag. You mean I'm a tampon? I asked. I'm a tampon for not letting you drive? I laughed. You didn't. At least, not until you sobered up.

I wondered if this was how you'd felt. I wondered if I was making myself feel how you'd felt. I knew it wasn't a choice. It was just what my mind was doing. Although I could've been fighting it more.

the sadness will ebb the trouble is the time it might take

I've tried breaking things to feel better - and found that it only feels better while things are breaking, not the next moment, when they're broken. It's a release that leads to nowhere.

All the other things I am - they're too complicated. I can feel them lying in wait, planning their return.

I wish she could see how it hits him. The look on his face, his life caving in. Because then maybe she'd realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesn't matter to her, she matters to the world.

I checked my email. this is it this is what it feels like to be helpless.