Quotes About Emotions

I don't know what came over me. It's like sometimes when it's very quiet I feel like screaming. And sometimes when I'm holding something delicate I feel like dropping it. I don't know why.

Henri kept everything important in his heart. He mostly kept cookies in his head.

He often said that words told them what someone was thinking, but the tone told them how they felt.

I asked him to leave because he stopped caring for me, stopped supporting me. Not because I'd stopped caring for him.

Good hearts get hurt. Good hearts get broken, Armand. And then they lash out.

But he realized Henri already knew all he'd ever need. He knew he was loved and he knew how to love.

And fear. High school smelled of that more than anything else, even more than sweaty feet, cheap perfume and rotten bananas.

when people died, they didn't go away. They were very much alive in the minds, in the hearts, in the vivid memories of those left behind. And they were not always easy to live with. Some ghosts had demands.

emotions were far from linear. They were circles and waves and dots and triangles. But they were rarely a straight line." Chapter 13 · Page 114 · Location 2031

All children are sad, but some get over it.

transferring her hunger to eat into a hunger to hurt. He didn't turn round. She knew she should let it go, but it was too late. She'd chewed the insult over, torn it apart and swallowed it. The insult was part of her now.

I'm sorry. I shouldn't be working." "Of course you should. I'm alright." "Even F.I.N.E.?" She laughed. "Especially that." Fucked-up. Insecure. Neurotic. Egotistical.

Fear might stop some people from committing murder, but he knew for certain fear was what drove most people to kill. It was what nested below all the other emotions. It was what twisted and turned the other emotions into something sick. It was an alchemist and could turn daylight into night, joy into despair. Fear, once taken root, blocked the sun. And Gamache knew what grew in that darkness. He searched for it every day.

And as he felt the final beat of Sonny's heart Gamache had had the impression it wasn't that his old heart had stopped but that Sonny had finally given it all away.

FINE stands for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic and Egotistical. I'm FINE.

A coy smile could capture him, but it was finally a hearty laugh that had freed him.

FINE stood for Fucked up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Egotistical.

In grief people were themselves and not themselves.

if love followed them through lifetimes, did hate also follow?

A will, an estate, could become about more than money, property, possessions. Who was left the most could be interpreted as who was loved the most. There were different sorts of greed. Of need.

walked deep into the shadow, deep into the longhouse where all his experiences and memories lived…

He listened to people, took notes, gathered evidence, like all his colleagues. But he did one more thing. He gathered feelings. He collected emotions. Because murder was deeply human.

Change the facts and you'll change the feelings." Chapter 20 · Page 175 · Location 3170

She'd never actually smiled at a family reunion before. It felt odd.