Quotes About Intensity

She gripped his arm, pressing her claws into the naked flawless skin and the firm muscle beneath.

She felt, with intensity only fifteen could know. And it was a true and dreadful intensity, no less to be credited because one found her wracked in the throes of it.

With one she loved she would be fire and flower and flood. But with any other, worthless, cold, and useless.

Cold enough to burn, she was yet his dutiful wife.

Like adamant she stared down at him, and some were certain they beheld her abhorence of him now, naked as swords in her gaze, as if she might kill him all over again.

Shaina got to her feet and clenched her hands. Her eyes, chestnut-colored, almost copper in the fire gloom, were wide and full of hunger, but her mouth was set.

He met Roilant's gaze with two eyes more clear than the clearest winter sea, and rather colder.

He'd wanted to take her dirty and take her sweet, take her any way he could get her and every way he could dream up

In the space of so many scant hours, a new world had lifted the hem of her skirts before him. A world of seething pleasures and sweaty rage.

touching God might be like touching a thick shaft of lightning, but one filled with pleasure. It might very well kill you, she said, but at least you'd die with a smile on your face.

But red Was what you wrapped around you. Blood red.

In dealing with autism, I'm certainly not saying we should lose sight of the need to work on deficits, But the focus on deficits is so intense and so automatic that people lose sight of the strengths.

The "Intense World" paper proposed that if the amygdala, which is associated with emotional responses, including fear, is affected by sensory overload, then certain responses that look antisocial actually aren't.

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.

When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...

She laughs frequently and wildly and with a sort of precocious, tragic abandon.

I'm starting to boil inside. I know I seem dreamy, but inside-well, I'm boiling! Whenever I pick up a shoe, I shudder a little thinking how short life is and what I am doing!

Forse era quella la definizione di amore. Quando volevi una persona, ne avevi bisogno, l'adoravi, anche nei momenti di collera, quando saresti stato disposto a legarla al letto per impedirle di uscire a combinare altri guai.

It really is more difficult when you're older. You're blessed because you had the chance to know them, but the pain of the loss is more intense.

La satisfacción se convirtió en algo más intenso: felicidad. Felicidad porque había sido ella la que había borrado las sombras de sus ojos. Quería disiparlas para siempre.

I feel too much. It's like being drummed to death from within. You know?