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Emotion Quotes
"I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could havepoured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn'tthat what normal mothers and daughters did?"
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"To feel alone is to be alone."
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"My eyes are open and I'm not seeing a thing because I am so lost inside."
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"There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom."
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"He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest.Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard.Just three words long."
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"Resentments make even the best of us feel superior."
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"A heart that can break is better than no heart at all."
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"Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth.""You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around... him. It makes total sense."
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"Emotional safety is feeling internally secure and confident in your life."
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"Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning.""Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?""I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though.""Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?""You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering.""Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this."
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"Jealousy is love in competition."
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"There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her eyelashes, I was hers. It had taken me nearly fifteen years to extinguish their light. Now, when she looks at me, it's a vacuum. I had drained so much from her over the course of our marriage that every glance rips a little bit of my soul away to fill the void I had whittled within her."
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"Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds."
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"There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!"
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"She sat in the silence that resulted in the absence of her words, feeling unburdened but not absolved."
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"Hate wields no sustainable power, it is ultimately suffocated by the juice of love."
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"Submit in silence and scream from within.Or...Stand up and shout and silence the pain."
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"If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican."
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"In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her with such strong earnestness would have moved her to great compassion. But so long accustomed to suppress emotion and keep down reality, so long schooled for her own purposes in that destructive school which shuts up the natural feelings of the heart like flies in amber and spreads one uniform and dreary gloss over the good and bad, the feeling and the unfeeling, the sensible and the senseless, she had subdued even her wonder until now."
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"In the pause that followed, Shane understood why people said their hearts broke. She always thought it was a weak metaphor of strong emotion. She could feel each bit of shrapnel from her heart stab at her stomach and lungs. Her knees gave out beneath her as she heard the voice tell her what she already knew in her fragments of cardiac tissue."
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"And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through."
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"Close your eyes, forget everything that hurts you and dream love, kindness and compassion."
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"Our souls are always looking for love, and hearts wait to treasure it."
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"I refuse to give up on love and I refuse to lay down and die."
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"Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question...yes."
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"He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, "Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and you will see the living light of your dearly loved departed up above in heaven."
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"Don't let your tears be seen, it may hurt someone else's happiness."
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"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!"
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"Cynicism springs from disappointments in love."
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