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Emotion Quotes
"It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right."
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"All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me. I loathe Somnus, that black-masked headsman binding me to the block; and if in the course of years I have got so used to my nightly ordeal as almost to swagger while the familiar axe is coming out of its great velvet-lined case, initially I had no such comfort or defense: I had nothing - save a door left slightly ajar into Mademoiselle's room. Its vertical line of meek light was something I could cling to, since in absolute darkness my head would swim, just as the soul dissolves in the blackness of sleep."
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"My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart."
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"WINTER SPOILER KINDACinder stared at his whitened knuckles and struggled for something meaningful to say. Her grand plan of revolution and change had just begun and already she felt like a failure. This seemed worse than failing the people of Luna, though. She'd failed the people she cared about most in the universe.Finally, she whispered, "I'm so sorry, Thorne.""Yeah," he said. "Me too."
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"The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day."
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"Our grief is not a cry for war."That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombing looks like, and they know the hell it is. But outside New York, people will feel guilty because they weren't here. They'll be yelling for revenge out of guilt and ignorance. Sure, we all want to catch the criminals, but only people who weren't in New York will want to bomb another country and repeat what happened here."
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"Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow."
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"Mikey," she says, but not like she's about to say anything more, just like she's identifying me, making a place for me here that's mine to exist in. I want her so much, my heart feels heavy, like I'm grieving. Is this what they meant about that stomach feeling? They didn't say it felt this sad."
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"The saddest noise in the world is that of a heart breaking."
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"For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?But if a spiral, am I going up or down it?How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time."
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"If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart."
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"O beautiful, to make escapeAnd leave this world behind.Had I to stay another dayI'd lose my fucking mind!"
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"Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness."
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"I'm bored with it all. - Last Words"
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"She has an eye for tragedy and sorrow. Show her a rose and she'll see only the wasp in the center of the bloom."
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"She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure they have a reason to be connected to this world. The slightest breeze could have carried her away, into the night sky, across the universe."
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"Those who know you see your tears even in the rain."
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"Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms."
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"Silence is the music of the heart."
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"But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at times, whatever be their education or state."
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"Anger can be defeated by controlling our emotions without upsetting the nerves."
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"He belongs to a whorehouse, not in my heart."
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"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"And a little later you added:"You know-- one loves the sunet, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply."
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"She felt nervy as all her excitements turned into weaknesses."
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"... but she was also bewilderingly lonely... Abra had lost her gift for being alone."
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"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
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"Shame is a soul eating emotion."
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"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."
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"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."
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"There is not love of life without despair about life."
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"Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders."
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"JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide."
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"Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own."
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