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"Brianna! Is Sam okay? Astrid cried."No. Drake tore him up. She wanted to sound tough, but the sobs came bubbling up and overtook her. "Oh, God, Astrid, he's hurt so bad.Astrid gasped and covered her hand with her mouth. Brianna put her arms around Astrid and sobbed into her hair."Is he going to die? Astrid asked, voice wobbly."No, I don't think so, Brianna said. She stood back and wiped her tears. "I gave him something for the pain. But he's messed up, Astrid."

"Brianna! Is Sam okay? Astrid cried."No. Drake tore him up. She wanted to sound tough, but the sobs came bubbling up and overtook her. "Oh, God, Astrid, he's hurt so bad.Astrid gasped and covered her hand with her mouth. Brianna put her arms around Astrid and sobbed into her hair."Is he going to die? Astrid asked, voice wobbly."No, I don't think so, Brianna said. She stood back and wiped her tears. "I gave him something for the pain. But he's messed up, Astrid."

Michael Grant, American Author

Emotion, Observation, Truth, Hurt

38

"It's for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn't go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can't shake the persistent, needling feeling that I've forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever."

"It's for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn't go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can't shake the persistent, needling feeling that I've forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Emotion, Regret, Loss, Emptiness, Reflection

38

"Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame."

"Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Emotion, Shame, Identity, Humility, Transformation

38

"It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you."

"It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Emotion, Love, Hate, Relationship

38

"The more one judges, the less one loves."

"The more one judges, the less one loves."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Emotional, Judges

38

"Yellow is the colour of the sun.Blue is the colour of the sky.Green is the colour of grass.Brown is the colour of your eyes.Black is the colour of the night.Orange is the colour of truth.Red is the colour of love.And...Rainbow is the colour of you."

"Yellow is the colour of the sun.Blue is the colour of the sky.Green is the colour of grass.Brown is the colour of your eyes.Black is the colour of the night.Orange is the colour of truth.Red is the colour of love.And...Rainbow is the colour of you."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Emotion, Truth, Love, Beauty

38

"His memory is the last place i want to be. I would give anything to always be in his present."

"His memory is the last place i want to be. I would give anything to always be in his present."

Colleen Hoover, American Celebrity

Emotion, Memory, Present, Love

38

"Don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?.."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Emotion, Appearance, Power, Desire

38

"This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love."

"This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

Emotion, Madness, Love, Story

38

"I saw spark in your eyes while you chose only flaws in me, that made the difference!"

"I saw spark in your eyes while you chose only flaws in me, that made the difference!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Emotion, Perception, Judgment, Insight

38

"Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation."

"Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Emotion, Love, Wisdom, Envy, Society

38

"He swallowed hard, annoyed at the sudden dryness in his throat. No reason to become all emotional about it now. He had already sold his soul for a chance at vengeance, and there was no getting it back."

"He swallowed hard, annoyed at the sudden dryness in his throat. No reason to become all emotional about it now. He had already sold his soul for a chance at vengeance, and there was no getting it back."

G.S. Jennsen, American Author

Emotion, Regret, Decision, Control

38

"AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.'So that's Sara,' I said.'Yes.''She seems nice."

"AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.'So that's Sara,' I said.'Yes.''She seems nice."

John Green, American Author

Emotion, Identity, Meeting, Recognition

38

"Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control."

"Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Emotion, Anger, Self-Control, Conflict

38

"In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."

"In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."

Mark Twain, American Author

Emotion, Desperation, Profanity, Prayer

38

"The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose."

"The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose."

Mark Lawrenson, English Athlete

Emotional, Feeling

37

"My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble."

"My whole feeling in terms of racing is that you have to be very bold. You sometimes have to be aggressive and gamble."

Bill Rodgers, American Athlete

Emotional, Feeling, Racing

37

"The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good."

"The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good."

Magic Johnson, American Athlete

Emotional, Emotions, Want

37

"Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists."

"Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists."

Willem de Kooning, American Artist

Emotional, Feelings, Artists

37

"Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did."

"Well, there are certain words and emotions I don't want kids hearing, and I'm not changing because they think it's going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million votes doing what I did."

Clay Aiken, American Musician

Emotional, Emotions, Hearing, Kids, Sound

37

"I see too deep and too much."

"I see too deep and too much."

Henri Barbusse, French Novelist

Emotional, Deep

37

"Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were."

"Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were."

J.R. Ward, American Author

Emotion, Shame, Self, Truth

37

"From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling."

"From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling."

Henry Charles Carey, American Economist

Emotional, Feeling, State, Trade

37

"Nothing is more excruciating than hopelessly longing for lost love."

"Nothing is more excruciating than hopelessly longing for lost love."

Ken Poirot, American Motivational Speaker

Emotion, Loss, Grief, Happiness, Regret

37

"Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins."

"Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Emotion, Sadness, Observation, Reflection

37

"I know where I came from-but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once-and you all went away.So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.You aren't really there at all. There isn't anybody but me-Jane-here alone in the dark.I miss you dreadfully!"

"I know where I came from-but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once-and you all went away.So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.You aren't really there at all. There isn't anybody but me-Jane-here alone in the dark.I miss you dreadfully!"

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Emotion, Loneliness, Loss, Memory, Darkness

37

"Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world."

"Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Emotion, Heart, Pain, Open, Sensitivity

37

"I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be."

"I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

Emotion, Passion, Anger, Expression, Creativity

37

"I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic."

"I'm more than a few neurons shy of a synapse right now, and it feels absolutely fan-fucking-tastic."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Emotion, Mind, Chaos, Rebellion

37

"I'm so sorry. I am so sorry for everything."

"I'm so sorry. I am so sorry for everything."

Marie Lu, American Author

Emotion, Apology, Regret, Responsibility

37

"For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breatheourselves out and away; with each new heartfirewe give off a fainter scent. True, someone may tell us:you're in my blood, this room, Spring itselfis filled with you . . . To what end? He can't hold us,we vanish within him and around him."

"For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breatheourselves out and away; with each new heartfirewe give off a fainter scent. True, someone may tell us:you're in my blood, this room, Spring itselfis filled with you . . . To what end? He can't hold us,we vanish within him and around him."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Emotion, Feelings, Love, Loss, Presence

37

$"To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again."$

"To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again."

Marilynne Robinson, American Author

Emotion, Desire, Experience, Life

37

"I do, not because i think, but I Feel!"

"I do, not because i think, but I Feel!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Emotion, Feeling, Truth, Life

37

"But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure."

"But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure."

Voltaire, French Writer

Emotion, Pleasure, Condemnation, Joy, Life

37

"Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability."

"Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability."

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

Emotion, Love, Endurance, Change

37

"That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love."

"That sassy low classy, but dress real cheap-fly-n-fancy, with a chip on her shoulder -- she's just a bitterly wounded dove, wanting to be sieged by love."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Emotion, Love, Hurt, Identity

37

"Hatred may last a lifetime, but love is ever lasting."

"Hatred may last a lifetime, but love is ever lasting."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Emotion, Hatred, Love, Peace

37

"Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time."

"Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time."

Umberto Eco, Italian Novelist

Emotion, Desire, Excess, Happiness, Regret

37

"The heart aches through nights-the broken places of neglect."

"The heart aches through nights-the broken places of neglect."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Emotion, Night, Neglect, Pain

37

"Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand - carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart."

"Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand - carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart."

Katherine McIntyre, American Novelist

Emotion, Environment, Memory, Home

37

"It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and that that part of her soul would quickly be smothered in the life she was leading."

"It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and that that part of her soul would quickly be smothered in the life she was leading."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Emotion, Pain, Soul, Life, Struggle

37

"I will break your heart over a fucking library card."

"I will break your heart over a fucking library card."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

Emotion, Heartbreak, Humor, Pain, Conflict

37

"Many times he had tried unsuccessfully to let go his hold on her. They had many fine times together, fine talks between the loves of the white nights, but always when he turned away from her into himself he left her holding Nothing in her hands and staring at it, calling it many names, but knowing it was only the hope that he would come back soon."

"Many times he had tried unsuccessfully to let go his hold on her. They had many fine times together, fine talks between the loves of the white nights, but always when he turned away from her into himself he left her holding Nothing in her hands and staring at it, calling it many names, but knowing it was only the hope that he would come back soon."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Emotion, Letting Go, Love, Hope, Loss

37

"Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already."

"Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Emotion, Heartbreak, Pain, Expression

37

"For the kindest of them was as far out of touch, as unreachable, as the crudest."

"For the kindest of them was as far out of touch, as unreachable, as the crudest."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Emotion, Kindness, Isolation, Truth

37

"If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!"

"If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!"

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Emotion, Anger, Hurt, Revenge

37

"If evil had a laugh, she thought it would sound like his."

"If evil had a laugh, she thought it would sound like his."

Nenia Campbell, Swedish Musician

Emotion, Evil, Laughter, Darkness

37

"Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me."

"Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Emotion, Life, Love, Pain, Communication

37

"The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better."

"The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

Emotional, Feelings, Beliefs, Talk

37

"My heart is so smallit's almost invisible.How can You place such big sorrows in it?"Look," He answered,"your eyes are even smaller,yet they behold the world."

"My heart is so smallit's almost invisible.How can You place such big sorrows in it?"Look," He answered,"your eyes are even smaller,yet they behold the world."

Rumi, Persian Poet

Emotion, Heart, Sorrow, Perspective

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