Quotes About Emotions

Some people are not worth it, but your fear of loosing them sometimes is bigger than your realization.

Neither had realized the loneliness each had lived with for such a long time until the loneliness was interrupted by genuine affection.

the pain didn't go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.

She has loved him, and she could not bear the thought of him being gone form this life.

Both men had made money from chance and fear and loneliness.

It was then that Ella realized she had no mother who'd search for her in this way. She was surprised by how bitterly she felt this lack-for a contingency that would never occur.

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a book store, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his best. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a bookstore, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his est. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.

He could never replace her. And he felt he had done her a great injustice by not having told her this.

emotional injustice

Sunja was a pragmatic woman, but even she thought Hansu was unusually cruel. The more she got to know this man, the more she realized that the man she'd loved as a girl was an idea she'd had of him – feelings without any verification.

I know you didn't want us. My brothers told me, and I told them they were wrong even though I knew they weren't. I clung to you because I wasn't going to let you just leave what you started. How can you tell me how hard it is to have children? You haven't even tried to be a mother. What right do you have? What makes you a mother?

It had been eleven years since he'd died; the pain didn't go away, but its sharp edge had dulled and softened like sea glass.

I have a granddaughter but no grandsons, and the girl cries too much.

He looked so happy, and it pleased her to see him like this. She could count on him to be a happy person.

What do you do with silence? Casey wondered. It was easier to yell back at her father. It was impossible to beat a person who refused to fight, who's never had a wish to win.

After Isak died, Yoseb had become a different man—sullen, brooding, and uninterested in anything but work.

Now that he was gone, Sunja held on to her father's warmth and kind words like polished gems.

The more she got to know this man, the more she realized that the man she'd loved as a girl was an idea she'd had of him - feelings without any verification.

He would continue to suffer with love.

Being a mother had taught her that this kind of emotional injustice was perhaps inevitable.

He was afraid of her; perhaps he had always been afraid of her - her joy, anger, sadness, excitement - she had so many extreme feelings.

He had expected to have a long life with her, not a few years. Who would he tell when a customer did something funny? Who would he tell that their son had made him so proud, standing on crutches and shaking the hands of grown-ups and being braver than any other person in the room?

There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a bookstore, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet, grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his best. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.