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Quotes About Emotions

Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures that think.
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
What good was beauty with no one to share it? Alone, beauty was almost cruel.
~ Jill Ciment
It was as close as I had ever come to having power over someone, and I equated it with love.
~ Jill Ciment
figure that, having grown up watching me doing any number of things she considered humiliating when I was in a good mood, she was so terrified when I was in an angry one that the prospect was unthinkable to her.
~ Jill Conner Browne
Hallie had had plenty of practice over the years at hiding her true feelings and presenting a brave face to the world.
~ Jill Mansell
I'm trying my best, but I feel like such a spare part.
~ Jill Mansell
Ellie closed her eyes and felt the aching loneliness well up inside her chest.
~ Jill Mansell
It's a scary thing, you know, being a man. We always have to run the risk of inviting someone out and being turned down flat. You women don't realize how fragile our egos are.
~ Jill Mansell
For ninety minutes now she had been listening to the Story of Kevin. Ninety minutes was the length of an entire film. She could have watched Anna Karenina and been less depressed.
~ Jill Mansell
Unaccountably disappointed, Conor did the only thing he could do and took a consolatory bite of his mince pie. Oh well.
~ Jill Mansell
curtain yelled, 'I hate you, I hate you so much, just GET OUT OF MY LIFE!
~ Jill Mansell
wasn't looking too cheerful. God, and who could blame her? She was about to have a baby and it had all gone pear-shaped with the father;
~ Jill Mansell
The pain of losing people you love is the price of the ticket for getting to know them at all.
~ Jill McCorkle
I am homesick and I am timesick . . . I miss all that no longer is, Lil says.
~ Jill McCorkle
I can see why you'd be confused, seeing as you've acted like a complete ass.
~ Jill Shalvis
You, Lilah, scare the hell out of me. Why? she whispered. He met her gaze and held it. Because I could fall for you, Lilah. Hard and deep and never want to come back up. She could scarcely breathe. What's wrong with that? We'd drown.
~ Jill Shalvis
The smile made her want to hug him, and maybe love him up some more. Stupid smile.
~ Jill Shalvis
It's the kissing! The stupid kissing! It's like he kissed all the vital brain cells right out of my head!
~ Jill Shalvis
Sugar, Tara said in a voice that was pure Pissed-Off South. You need to go far, far away. A few weeks ago, he'd have taken that to mean she didn't want to see his face within a six-hundred-mile radius. Now he knew the truth. He distracted her. He could live with that. Came to see if I can help. I think I know how to make burgers, she said smoothly. But bless your heart. In other words, f*** off and die.
~ Jill Shalvis
Mallory dropped her head to the steering wheel. Look, I'm mad at you, okay? This isn't about me. I know my painful memories are relative. My life is good. I'm lucky. This isn't about how poor little Mallory has had it so hard. I'm not falling apart or anything. He stroked a hand down her back. Of course you're not. You're just holding the steering wheel up with your head for a minute, that's all.
~ Jill Shalvis
She closed her eyes. "Okay, here's the thing. We have some chemistry," she allowed. "Some? Or supernova?" "Supernova. But," she said to his knowing grin. Good Lord, he needed to stop doing that. "I really did give up men." "Forever?" "My gut says yes, but that might be PMS talking. Let's just say I'm giving up men for a very long time." "You going to try out women?
~ Jill Shalvis
Are you in love with me, the me I am right now? Well not right now, he said, brooding. Right now you're kinda mean. -Tara and Logan
~ Jill Shalvis
What? Get tired of the way he looks at me as if I'm his entire life? Get over the fact that for the first time ever, someone wants me for me? That the man somehow actually enjoys making me happy? Jade stared at her. The ice cream... I'll buy a lifetime supply of ice cream. Hell, I'll even pretend he's right some of the time... it's worth it. He's worth it. And you know what? So am I.
~ Jill Shalvis
She was like a drug. The most addicting kind, and he had a problem—he was pretty sure that she was developing feelings for him. He had no idea what to do with that, or with is own feelings, which were definitely getting in his way. This whole no emotional attachment thing had gone straight to shit. Because Mallory Quinn was emotionally attached to every person she ever met, and she had a way of making that contagious. He craved contact with her in a way that he wasn't experienced with.
~ Jill Shalvis