Quotes About Emotion

What you must understand about me is that I'm a deeply unhappy person.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?!

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

I love you present tense.

I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.

Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.

Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.

The town was paper, but the memories were not.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

I've gotten really hot since you went blind.

I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Eventually I came to understand some of what was at work between my father and Murphy. Unable to meet each other on equal terms, they chose not to meet at all but to orbit around each other like two separate planets of entirely different composition. It was, I realize now, the way my father dealt with just about everyone, including his wife and children.

I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

It was a good memory, so he drove it down, crushed it. It only made things harder.