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Quotes About Emotion

Don't be afraid to be afraid.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
she stopped herself from being hurt long, long ago by not letting herself love anybody or anything.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Don't be afraid to be afraid.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
An icon is not meant to be an idol. Just a reminder that love is greater than hate.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Meg stamped, loudly and angrily, against the hard, cold surface of the rock.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved. Love is people, is a person. A friend of ours, Hugh Bishop of Mirfield, says in one of his books: Love is not an emotion. It is a policy. Those words have often helped me when all my feelings were unlovely.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I have learned that I love. Love. That is a good word.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
It seemed strange that with so much softness in her actual construction Mamma gave such a feeling of hardness. When
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Only a human being can say I'm sorry. Forgive me. This is part of our particularity. It is part of what makes us capable of tears, capable of laughter.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
They can't understand plain, ordinary love when they see it.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Immediately he opened a large number of eyes very wide. "What a strange idea. Love isn't feeling. If it were, I wouldn't be able to love. Cherubim don't have feelings.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
~ Madeleine L'Engle (Meg)
Knowing a person isn't like knowing a string of facts. It's more like...a feeling.
~ Madeleine Wickham
Flip! Are you all right! Paul! Are you all right! They spoke simultaneously and then they both laughed and Paul came over to the bed and kissed Flip and then stood looking down at her. Flip smiled at him and strangely her eyes filled with tears. I thought he'd killed you, Paul said. No, I'm fine, Paul. Are you all right?
~ Madeline L'Engle
He had not known it was possible to love a little human being as he loved Annie.
~ Maeve Binchy
The rage she felt was a real thing, you could almost take it out of her and see it, like a red mist.
~ Maeve Binchy
What part of the human mind or body was so inefficient that it could make you think you loved someone so wildly unsuitable?
~ Maeve Binchy
he must not know how much power he had to move her.
~ Maeve Binchy
She sat icy and withdrawn. She had hoped he would touch her, put his arms around her. Now she felt she would kill him if he tried.
~ Maeve Binchy
she said in a voice disguising her terror. She had seen real annoyance and impatience in his eyes.
~ Maeve Binchy
You know how sorry he is Nan. You must know how he'd give any of us the moon after he's been—not himself." "It's too high a price to pay for the moon
~ Maeve Binchy
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.
~ Maggie Nelson
53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love. But I am not willing to go there-not just yet. I believed in you.
~ Maggie Nelson