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Quotes About Emotion

If he had any sorrow, "it sat with its head under its wing," and he turned only his sunny side to the world.
~ Louisa May Alcott
They always looked back before turning the corner, for their mother was always at the window to nod and smile, and wave her hand to them. Somehow it seemed as if they couldn't have got through the day without that, for whatever their mood might be, the last glimpse of that motherly face was sure to affect them like sunshine.
~ Louisa May Alcott
And holding the little paper fast, as if it were a promise yet to be fulfilled, Jo laid her head down on a comfortable rag bag, and cried, as if in opposition to the rain pattering on the roof.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Verdad que estamos bien? ¡Fuera, mamarracho! ¡Cállese usted la boca! ¡Dame un beso, rica! ¡Ah, ah!
~ Louisa May Alcott
Beth, if you don't keep these horrid cats down cellar I'll have them drowned, exclaimed Meg angrily
~ Louisa May Alcott
and she found that something more than money and position was needed to satisfy the new longing that filled her heart so full of tender hopes and fears.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Grief is the best opener of some hearts
~ Louisa May Alcott
A large sheaf, but I know there's room in your heart for it, Marmee dear, added Meg's tender voice. Touched to the heart, Mrs. March could only stretch out her arms, as if to gather children and grandchildren to herself, and say, with face and voice full of motherly love, gratitude, and humility... Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this!
~ Louisa May Alcott
don't think I have any words in which to tell the meeting of the mother and daughters.
~ Louisa May Alcott
He did not say a word, but took the hand she offered him, and laid his face down on it for a minute, feeling that out of the grave of a boyish passion, there had risen a beautiful, strong friendship to bless them both.
~ Louisa May Alcott
That I was in love? Well, I am, but not with her.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Amo-te desde que te conheço, Jo; não o consigo evitar, tens sido tão boa para mim. Tentei demonstrar-to, mas não me deixaste; tens mesmo de ouvir e dar-me uma resposta, pois não posso continuar assim durante mais tempo.
~ Louisa May Alcott
gostaria de não ter coração, pois dói tanto.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Sentimental? Yes. Thank Gott, we Germans believe in sentiment, and keep ourselves young mit it. Your English 'you' is so cold, say 'thou,' heart's dearest, it means so much to me, pleaded Mr. Bhaer, more like a romantic student than a grave professor.
~ Louisa May Alcott
There was no answer except her sister's cheek against her own, not even tears, for when most deeply moved, Jo did not cry.
~ Louisa May Alcott
She tore the letter to atoms.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I think you will find someone and love them and you will live and die for them because that is your way and you will.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Well, I see beauty in you, dear. And if you are not art, what is?
~ Louisa May Alcottott
What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.
~ Louise Erdrich
Veils of love which was only hate petrified by longing--that was me.
~ Louise Erdrich
Tu dois aimer. Tu dois ressentir. C'est la raison pour laquelle tu es ici sur terre. Tu es ici pour mettre ton coeur en danger
~ Louise Erdrich
I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain.
~ Louise Erdrich
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
~ Louise Erdrich
What I'm trying to say is that a certain sentence of the book—a written sentence, a very powerful sentence—killed Flora.' Louise was silent. After a few moments she spoke. 'I wish I could write a sentence like that.
~ Louise Erdrich