Quotes About Emotions

People who are scared need to laugh, and the scarier things are, the more they need it.

another pang of half-remembered days long gone made my chest ache for a second.

Cujo growled at me in the rearview mirror again, and I beamed at him. Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

Kill you!" she snarled. "Kill you for what you did to him!" "Holy crap!" Thomas yelled. "Ack!" I agreed.

telling myself only hours ago that reason had to guide my actions, my decisions, if I was to keep control of myself?

Let's talk about it after we eat something. Everyone's angry when they're hungry. Makes for bad decisions.

I've noticed that people got the most irrational whenever family was around—while simultaneously losing their ability to distinguish reason from insanity. I call it familial dementia.

I'm not saying pain is what defines us as human beings. But it is, in many ways, what unites us. We all recognize other people in pain. Damned near all of us are moved to do something about it when we see it. It's our common enemy, though it isn't, really, an enemy. Pain is, at least when our bodies are working properly, a teacher. A really tough, really strict, and perfectly fair teacher.

Everyone cares about everyone else, so when you get mad and say something horrible, it hurts that much more. And too many things go unsaid. That's the worst, I think. Everyone thinks they know one another better than they probably do, so you fill in the silences with things the other person never actually said. Or thought. Or thought about saying.

Of course it went badly," Karrin said. "It was a fight with someone in your family. Believe me, family fights are the worst." "The family hasn't even been assembled yet and there's fights," I complained. "Looks pretty assembled to me, from what I've seen," she said, her tone dry.

But feeling true isn't the same as being true. In fact, feelings don't have very much to do with the truth at all.

but sometimes humans are slow to figure things out, because they are heart-stupid.

Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than the uselessly structured formality of casual civilized interaction, there's a sense of satisfaction in it. Or at least, there is for me.

I know you must be angry." "I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry," I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.

Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.

I'm not saying pain is what defines us as human beings. But it is, in many ways, what unites us. We all recognize other people in pain.

I've got it buttoned down," I said, and started driving. "Don't worry. I'm not going to let it make me . . . take anything away from you." Molly folded her hands in her lap, looked down at them, and said in a small voice, "If it's given, freely offered, you can't really take it away. All you're doing is accepting a gift.

I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.

Please, help me. Young werewolves in love.

Murphy appeared again as soon as I hung up the phone. 'Tell me you didn't just make a date, Dresden.' 'You're just jealous.

Pouting is another nonverbal sign of displeasure. Kids use it to beg their parents to talk to them.

says people of all ages compare the amount of control they have in a relationship to only the amount of control they used to have—not to the amount they feel they should have. When more control is allotted with time, people are satisfied; when control is cut back, people are angry.

kids will throw tantrums only as long as they work. Kids never seem to scream and pound the floor when they're alone in their room, but the show goes on when they have a captive audience.

Handling temper tantrums requires parents with soft voices who don't even try to reason with their misbehaving child.