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Emotion Quotes
"If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again."
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"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."
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"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!"
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"I tried cutting myself to express my heartbreak over Tommy (Lord Flood) rejecting me, but OMFG it hurts like flaming fuck."
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"My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive."
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"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."
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"I am a girl in want of complete destruction."
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"And I go home having lost her love. And write this book."
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"Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it is said always to do. I began each day with the hope that the next day would be better, my recollections a little less pointed, but I would awake to the same pain, as if a black lamp were burning eternally inside me, radiating darkness."
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"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."
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"The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless."
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"I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters."
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"I've made him a monster by overloving. Lord knows, if hatred could make him human again."
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"Anyone can find the bad in any situation but it takes love to see the good in all things."
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"Umbrellas raining upon me, as these cloudy tears give me shelter."
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"I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me."
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"Every time I stare into those eyes of yours, they shine like a mirror with the sharp edges, piercing trough every bit of my reflection. It makes me feel like a child lost in the woods. And all of a sudden I hear a song somewhere and a shiver runs down my spine. A song that I have heard somewhere before. A song that makes all my demons dance forcefully at once."
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"She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive."
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"I saw spark in your eyes while you chose only flaws in me, that made the difference!"
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"There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that."
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"All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt."
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"Julian of Norwich...wrote: 'Some of us believe that God is almighty and can do everything; and that he is all - wise and may do everything; but that he is all - love and will do everything - there we draw back. As I see it, this ignorance is the greatest of all hindrances to God's lovers.' Where do we thing we are going when we draw back fro"
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"The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose."
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"I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image."
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"There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism."
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"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"
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"The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life."
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"There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's."
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"Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person."
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"The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way."
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"Do I consider myself sexy? It all depends on the way I'm feeling. When I'm happy inside, that's when I feel most sexy."
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"His fingertips came to rest against the back of my hand, sending a zip of current through my whole body. "I'm done hiding, he whispered. "Nothing has changed. I know we might not have a lot of time, but what we do have, I want to spend right here."
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"His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved.He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool."
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