Quotes About Emotions

Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have done both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

My eyes are swollen shut. The sun rises. I don't.

On the second Thursday of the month, Mrs. Dombrowski brings her dead husband to our therapy group.

The first time I read Gone with the Wind and Rhett walked out on Scarlett, I was fifteen and thought all that unrequited love was wildly romantic. The second time I read it, last summer, I thought she was silly and he was a selfish pig.

Over the years, he's learned empathy the way I might learn Greek, translating an image or situation in the clearinghouse of his mind and trying to attach the appropriate sentiment to it, but never really fluent in the language.

If you hurt, cry. If you rage, strike out. If you hope, get ready for a disappointment.

they've done their share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

He could stand pain, himself. He just couldn't stand hers

Jos plaukai dabar yra ilgesni, o abipus jos burnos matyti dvi plonos rauksles, tarytum kliausteliai, gaubiantys milijona zodziu, kuriu as neturejau galimybes isgirsti.

There were some memories, she knew, you could run from forever and never shake. Josie

Most of the time, the words that were not written were the ones you needed the most.

A human heart breaks harder when it's dropped from a greater height.

people who didn't talk about their problems got to pretend they didn't have any. People who discussed what was wrong, on the other hand, fought and ached and felt miserable.

The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed.. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

The reason you hold on to someone too tightly isn't always to protect them—sometimes it's to protect yourself.

She did not understand this but then there was much in the world she did not understand. Raw love, like raw heartache could blindside you. It could make you forget what you did not know to focus exclusively on those few pieces you could commit to heart.

What if, when I get home, Nicholas is standing on the porch with open arms, willing to pick up where we left off? Can I let myself make the same mistakes all over again?

Could you love someone so much that, even without meaning to, you hurt them?

Words, he knew, could scar.

Why didn't you tell me? Delia says, stung. Why don't any of us tell you anything? I respond. We love you.

It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the speed your blood ran through you, how it made you dream in kaleidoscope color. It was that Trixie knew she couldn't have loved Jason this hard if he hadn't loved her that way too.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate.

love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow – beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.