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Emotion Quotes


"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough."


"Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will."


"When she made her way to the big picture window that framed the dining room table she froze. She stopped breathing. The anger was growing again.It grew up into her throat, where she could taste it, coppery like blood, in the back of her mouth. It grew down into her stomach, where it knotted her intestines. It made her arms stiffen and her shoulders lock. It pushed against her ribs until she felt they would snap like sticks."


"We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves."



"She stopped then and turned her face toward him and the hateful wind."


"The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago..."


"I find beauty in sadness, and peace... and a mystery waiting to be solved.. the more you unfold the mystery, the more you are mesmerized by the layers of mystery lying underneath.. and solitude becomes the perfect company for sadness..but again, the feeling you get when you realize you're not alone gives you inexplicable happiness.. and there's satisfaction in happiness, , and another mystery which is unknotted yet difficult to penetrate"


"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?"


"Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms."


"WINTER SPOILER - KINDA IDRKCinder looked away. Though so much had changed between them since that night, it still felt like an ice pick in her heart when she remembered the way he'd looked at her, and his horrified words: You're even more painful to look at than she is."


"The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy."


"I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal."


"Tears are a wonderful thing. They cleanse the eyes and the heart. Thanks to our tears we can better see the world and our friends."



"Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be . . . what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness."


"It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair."



"My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over."


"But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem."


"Baby , In your eyes Sweet memories of the good times we had."


"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."


"Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it."


"That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!"


"You are really angry with me for not having appeared to you in a red glow, with thunder and lightning, with scorched wings."


"What are you thinking, Amy? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we ddone to each other? What will we do?"


"Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery."


"They sicken of calm who know the storm."
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