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Emotion Quotes
"I wanted to tell him not to cry anymore, tell him that what those boys did to that bird didn't matter. But I knew it did matter. It mattered to Dante. And, anyway, it didn't do any good to tell him not to cry because he needed to cry. That's the way he was."
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"All I knew is that sometimes my father was sad. I hated that he was sad. It made me sad too. I didn't like sad."
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"But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for."
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"Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again."
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"He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them."
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"Soul smiles through the lips of a happy face."
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"You are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression..."
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"But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why some days it's so quiet you don't even know it's there."
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
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"The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers."
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"It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed."
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"The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless."
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"Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly."
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"But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finger straight up to my mouth and spread his fingers. "Push back laugh is not good. Not healthy.""Also cry?" I asked. I traced an imaginary tear down my cheek with one finger."Also cry." He put his hand on his own belly. "Ha ha ha," he said, pressing his hand to show me the motion of his stomach. Then his expression changed to sad. "Huh huh huh," he heaved with exaggerated sobs, pressing his stomach again. "Same place. Not healthy to push down."
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"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
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"I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily."
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"I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea."
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"Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms."
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"I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off."
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"Did she feel pity for me, did she want me to suffer?The next morning she led me to the coat closet, which faces the living room, she went in with me, we were in there all day, although she knew he wouldn't come until the afternoon, it was too small, we needed more space between us, we needed Nothing Places, she said "This is what it's felt like, except you weren't here. We looked at each other in silence for hours."
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"In all my years, there was only one time I felt fear. That's when I had to send my Clarets away. I never experienced it again. Until you."
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"Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing."
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"She haunts my dreams.Shadows of the past.Ripping my heart down the seams.No one to blame but me.I'm a lone wolf now, but I still stare up at the moon, Call her name and wonder if she's looking too."
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"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn."
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"So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked."
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