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Emotion Quotes
"I couldn't help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them-it was a kind of sad I didn't mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way."
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"I love you as I do all - not at all."
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"He spent the afternoon alone in the streets."
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"One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior."
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"I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room."
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"Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone."
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"Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away."
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"You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true."
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"She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream."
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"That the other suffers has to be learned, and it can never be learned fully."
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"How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they'd rather hurt than hurt another."
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"See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't."
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"The greatest events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow out in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us."
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"Black Girls. Naturally resilient! We persevere, stand tall, and fight to the end. We don't give up! We make moves and succeed. We're go - getters by nature. We are stronger than most. We are unstoppable! Fearless and confident in our capabilities. WE are Black Girl Strong! #Incomparable"
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"She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies."
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"Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything... and yet she always, always felt she had nothing. No one."
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"We are way less likely to love someone just because they love us than we are to hate someone just because they hate us."
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"He built a fort around, making it impossible for anyone to go near him. And he sat near the window watching her dance in the rain, with someone else."
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"Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel.His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl."
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"She is not with me this grief is not bigger then this relax that she is with her choice."
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"Are you all right?" The question surprised Jess, and it broke through his black shell enough to make him throw a look at his friend. "No." I didn't think you were. Everyone wants you to be. That must be worse, that they think you should be fine."
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"Something about being that close to him all the time made my bones feel weak."
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"In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition."
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"His day, usually a jelly-like creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structure. It was marching along surely, even jauntily, toward a climax, as a play should, as a day should. He dreaded the moment when the backbone of the day should be broken, when he should have met the girl at last, talked to her, and then bowed her laughter out the door, returning only to the melancholy dregs in the teacups and the gathering staleness of the uneaten sandwiches."
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"I didn't fear you. I feared us. I feared what could have been. I feared what could be. I feared the connection we had between each other. The toxicity because I could grasp the danger."
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"Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward."
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"Even at the time, [he] felt his anger to be out of proportion to the cause, but it represented an accumulation of resentment."
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"Keep to the 'I-statements' and discuss your feelings, she lectured herself. I think, I feel. Don't be accusatory. Don't tell him that he is an insecure prick who should back off before you deck him. Instead, say, 'I feel you are acting like an insecure prick who should back off before I deck you."
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"Fear--who cares?"
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"For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely."
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"Ama bardağımın dibinde biram alıksa, aynada koyu renkli lekeler varsa, fazlalıksam; en içten ve en katı acımsız acım, ayıbalı gibi, hem bir yaşayın et hem gepgeni bir deriyle ve insanın içine dokunan ıslak, ama katılık dolu gözlerle sarılıp hantallaşıyorsa bu benim kabahatim mi?"
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"I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death."
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"Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning."
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"He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence, that he never comprehended the desperation in her dazzling, permanent smile, the terror in the brightness with which she faced the world, or the reasons why she hid when she couldn't manage to beam... every moment she spent in the world was full of panic, so she smiled and smiled and maybe once a week she locked the door and shook and felt like a husk, like an empty peanut-shell, a monkey without a nut."
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