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Quotes About Emotions

Enid, his ex-wife, had also listened. But there was always an edge of desperation about it, a demand. As though he owed her. As though she was dying and he was the medicine.
~ Louise Penny
También si todo aquello desaparecería con el tiempo. Si la voz se apagaría y los rasgos se desdibujarían. Si los recuerdos se desvanecerían y ocuparían su lugar en el olvido junto a otros acontecimientos del pasado, igual de agradables pero neutros. Avec le temps. ¿Es que con el paso del tiempo amamos menos?
~ Louise Penny
There are three couplings,' said Myrna, herself leaning forward now, and whispering though she didn't know why. 'Attachment masquerades as Love, Pity as Compassion and Indifference as Equanimity.
~ Louise Penny
Attachment takes hostages.
~ Louise Penny
How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
~ Louise Penny
That was why she was happy. He now knew that happiness and kindness went together. There was not one without the other. For Jean-Guy it was a struggle. For Annie it seemed natural.
~ Louise Penny
When were these seeds of anger sown / And on what ground.
~ Louise Penny
At Christmas homes were full of the people there and people not there.
~ Louise Penny
All I'd inherit would be outrage. I don't want that. For me or my family.
~ Louise Penny
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.
~ Louise Penny
Comment allez-vous?" asked Gamache, losing his hold on the wild eye. "I'm doing well, merci. You?
~ Louise Penny
So pity is the near enemy of compassion,' said Gamache slowly, mulling it over. 'That's right. It looks like compassion, acts like compassion, but is actually the opposite of it. And as long as pity's in place there's not room for compassion. It destroys, squeezes out, the nobler emotion.
~ Louise Penny
How do you make yourself not like someone?
~ Louise Rennison
I can already feel myself getting fed up with boys and I haven't had anything to do with them yet" - Georgia Nicolson
~ Louise Rennison
i will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.
~ Louise Rennison
I've never had anyone say they love me before. Libby lobes me, that is true, but there is something a bit menacing about the way she says it.
~ Louise Rennison
Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.
~ Louise Rennison
I always want to tell him everything. But instead I said, "What's your advice, Horn - meister?" And he started doing pretend beard stroking and said, "Well, luuurve is a many trousered thing. . . .
~ Louise Rennison
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~ Unknown
I was going to say, No, no, don't cry, I'll go out with you. Anything, but don't cry. . . . But I still couldn't make my voice work. And then he sort of cleared his throat and said, "Georgia, don't feel bad. It's always tough to hurt someone and tell them the truth. I know that. You're a really lovely girl. Lovely . . . mad . . . but lovely. I'll always like you. Don't worry.
~ Louise Rennison
Still, a really heavy period should cheer me up.
~ Louise Rennison
The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine