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Emotion Quotes


"One gets so hopelessly tired of deception."


"Laughter was like an enormous trap waiting patiently in the room with them, but hidden behind a thin wall."


"Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty."


"You do not reduce or eliminate your concerns by crying, shouting or proving you are the victim of whatever happened in your life."


"You can't just make me different and then leave."


"Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had."


"No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does."


"You are a ring tone on the phone I didn't answer."


"I'm sad now, the way we're talking is infinitely sad: faded music, faded paper flowers, worn satin, an echo of an echo. All gone away, no longer possible."


"But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."


"Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar."


"Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!"


"Their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity."


"To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity."


"The feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches..."


"He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream."


"Contentment is the joy of the soul."


"Gula and Cali lie on their sides, their tiny adder-mouths showing the pink of their palates, their bodies throbbing with lustful and obscene dreams. The sky releases its burden of sun and color. Eyes closed, Catherine takes the long fall that carries her deep into herself, down where some animal stirs gently, breathing like a god."


"Pleasure can turn the body into a slave. Desire can turn the mind into a fool. Passion can turn the heart into a beast. Love can turn the soul into an angel."


"Introduce your thoughts to positivity on a daily basis, because they are the controllers of your frequent feelings and emotions."


"A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy."


"Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told - told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything."


"Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear."


"Lada made her face stone, her heart a mountain. A mountain that would never be pierced to let cold, clear water flow. 'Nothing holds me here."


"Words are more forgettable, but the emotional effects they have on the person hearing them stay engraved in his or her memory."


"No outbreak of jealousy or malice has ever been welcomed in God's eyes. Beatrix continued, "nor shall such an outbreak ever be welcomed in the eyes of your family. If you have sentiments within you that are unpleasant or uncharitable, let them fall stillborn to the ground."


"Be happy about your own life and you'll be amazed at just how much more beautiful you'll find it to be."
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