Quotes About Intensity

In questo mondo vi sono due esseri che trasaliscono profondamente: la madre che ritrova il figlio, e la tigre che ritrova la sua preda.

Non poteva sapere a qual segno ribolla e tempesti questo mare delle passioni umane quando gli si nega ogni sbocco; come cresca, come si gonfi, come trabocchi, come scavi il cuore, come scoppi in singhiozzi interiori e in sorde convulsioni, finchè non abbia sfondato le sue dighe e rotto il suo letto.

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.   —

The difference between Loreda and her mother wasn't fear—they shared that. It was fire. Her mother's passion had gone out.

When I care about someone, I hang on with a desperation that borders on mental illness.

Claire knew she loved her daughter too much; it was dangerous to need another human being so desperately, but Claire had never known any other way to love.

He was a shooting star and he blinded me with his light.

That was the thing about her dad: he might be moody and sharp-tempered, even a little scary sometimes, but that was just because he felt things like love and loss and disappointment so keenly.

She's my heroine. You know that.' Leni knew it wasn't a good thing, not a normal mom-and-dad thing, to compare your love to a drug that could hollow your body and fry your brain and leave you for dead. But they said it to each other all the time.

We have heart and desperation

This is hardly a time for gentler pursuits.

hammers falling

My heartbeat turns into wind pounding on the glass.

She doesn't understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing.

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

Mejor quemarse que apagarse lentamente.

it's better to burn out than fade away

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you.

A bitter hatred was lifting his lip from his teeth.

There was a fire inside him that only a few people could see. She could see it though, it was like the fire inside her.

Damon's voice was no louder than before. "Get away from my brother." Bonnie could feel it inside him, a swell of Power like a tsunami. He continued, "Before I tear your heart out.

It was like a song, one of those sweet, wrenching songs that makes the hair on your arms stand up. That makes you want to throw yourself on the floor and just bawl. Or fall backward and surrender to the music utterly.