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Quotes About Emotion

Dancing was a kind of surrender to feeling, to sound, to the present" -Anya
~ Gabrielle Zevin
For most of his life, Sam had found it difficult to say I love you. It was superior, he believed, to show love to those one loved. But now, it seemed like one of the easiest things in the world Sam could do. Why wouldn't you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did. —
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Why wouldn't you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Die Liebe ist Konstante und Variable zugleich.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
My god, she thought, he is so easy to love.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
his eyes reminded Sam of his own. They had the patina of a person who had felt pain and expected to feel it again.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Before your mother, my heart was little more than a seed, Jane. A wiggly, gelatinous mother, rather like a solitary sperm.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Dad. What a word. What a little big word. What a word and what a world! He is crying. His heart is too full, and no words to release it. I know what words do, he thinks. They let us feel less. "No
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Love you, Sammy," Dong Hyun said. "I love you, too, Grandpa." For most of his life, Sam had found it difficult to say I love you. It was superior, he believed, to show love to those one loved. But now, it seemed like one of the easiest things in the world Sam could do. Why wouldn't you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
he feels a vaguely familiar, slightly intolerable bubbling inside of him. He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
And I and him, and him and me. (I will always remember that he tasted like cigarettes and something passing sweet, which I could not quite identify.) Andiandhimandhimandme. (And so on.)
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Yes, Dad. Dad is what I am. Dad is what I became. The father of Maya. Maya's dad. Dad. What a word. What a little big word. What a word and what a world! He is crying. His heart is too full, and no words to release it. I know what words do, he thinks. They let us feel less.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I had never been good with words. On the path from my heart to my brain to my mouth, phrases became twisted and hopelessly convoluted. The intent—what I meant to say—never quite made it out.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We do things without knowing entirely why, just because our heart tells us that we must" -Theo
~ Gabrielle Zevin
No one else seems as real as he does.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Most of our customers have rather liked The Book Thief.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The loss of his mind has turned out to be a curiously pain-free process. He feels that it ought to hurt more.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Había pasado muchas horas con aquel hombre durante los últimos seis años. Solo hablaban de libros, pero ¿hay algo en la vida más personal que los libros?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Žinau, k? daro žodžiai. Žodžiai išlaisvina jaumus.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
He would know her handwriting anywhere.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I love you, Sadie," Sam said. "I know, Sam. I love you, too.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You'll meet someone. I did." "Fuck you. I like you. I'm used to you. You are the one, you asshole. I can't meet someone new." He
~ Gabrielle Zevin
They had only discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
you shouldn't go throwing around your love so easily.
~ Gabrielle Zevin