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Quotes About Emotions

It felt weird to exchange a smile with Honey, so I stopped as soon as I could.
~ Patricia Briggs
Love is both useful and powerful -- but seldom convenient. ~ Asil
~ Patricia Briggs
Making him feel horrible isn't what you want." She paused, considered what she said, then modified it. "Unless it is useful for him to feel horrible, of course. Mostly, though, I've found that isn't productive. Men who are miserable can be unpredictable.
~ Patricia Briggs
Love is both useful and powerful—but seldom convenient.
~ Patricia Briggs
He could have told her that he had no intention of bedding her, but he tried not to lie. Not even to himself. So he stayed silent.
~ Patricia Briggs
Bonarata was charming, but I couldn't forget or forgive him for
~ Patricia Briggs
If you had let me," he said, "I'd have courted you gently and won your heart." He closed his eyes. "I didn't mean to frighten you.
~ Patricia Briggs
Take it from me, anyone who lives with you is occasionally going to wonder who your liver might taste, and not because they are hungry. It comes with being a teenager - you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.
~ Patricia Briggs
I'd never felt like this after a fight, though. Usually, I feel energized and cheerful, not sick and scared out of my skin.
~ Patricia Briggs
Love, like any other living thing, needs to be fed. Only if you starve it will it die.
~ Patricia Briggs
Livin's easier than dyin' most times, Mercy girl," he said kindly, repeating my foster father's favorite saying. "Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come.
~ Patricia Briggs
Healthy pain invites healing. Gabriel is a good boy; he'll be a good man. Not all relationships that end
~ Patricia Briggs
Samuel laughed out loud. "You still haven't figured it out, have you, Mercy? He never was mad about the car. He was the first one at the scene of the accident. He thought you'd killed yourself. We all did. That was a pretty spectacular wreck.
~ Unknown
If you brought me out driving just so you could insult me-" "Oh, not just to insult you.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Allowing anyone, even Mairelon, not only to come close to her, but to circle her waist with his arms brought back old fears, though she had to admit that the sensation was pleasurable on those rare occasions when she could relax enough to enjoy it.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
And on top of everything, Mairelon hadn't even said she looked nice.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
But the most important thing of all, to which she kept returning like a tongue probing a sore tooth, was the realization that she had fallen in love with her gaurdian.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
She said that time and death are the greatest enemies all of us must face, and the only weapon stronger than they are is love.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Being upset is no excuse," Mother said sternly. "If you're going to be rude, do it for a reason and get something from it.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Lord Daner isn't my boyfriend," Eleret said, annoyed. She'd let it go by once, but after two mentions, she had to correct him. Karvonen would drive her crazy if he kept referring to Daner that way. "Huh." Karvonen pursed his lips skeptically. "I'll bet it's not because he didn't try." "You'd lose." "Then Daner's an idiot," Karvonen said with feeling.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Perfect happiness is good for one's soul. It is wonderful for one's temper. However, in my experience, it tends to impair one's wits.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts … . — Robert Fulghum
~ Unknown
Some people have not learned to know what their feelings mean. Some have been trained not to feel much. And some have been trained not to know that they have feelings.
~ Unknown
Recovery from verbal abuse is the opportunity to accept all your feelings and to recognize their validity. You may be the first person to recognize and accept them and to know that they are not wrong. They are, as we have said earlier, indicators that something is or was wrong in your environment, and it isn't you.
~ Unknown