Quotes About Emotion

But when I tried to meet her eye now, she pointedly looked away, and fixed her red and swollen eyes on the big stained-glass window above the slate. Since (a) it was dark outside and (b) the window depicted Saunt Grod and his research assistants being beaten with rubber hoses in the dungeons of some Praxic Age spy bureau and (c) Tulia had already spent something like a quarter of her life in this room, I reckoned that inspecting the window wasn't really the point.

I think I'm in love," she said. He clapped a bag over his mouth and threw up.

penetrates your iris, tenderest of sphincters

It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certainty and a conviction in her voice and her face that left him fascinated and awed. Because guys, at least of his age, didn't have the confidence to make major decisions from their gut like that. They had to build a superstructure of rational thought on top of it. But not Zula. She didn't have to decide. She just had to pass on the news.

Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor

The opening strains of "Comfortably Numb.

Regret, even horror were appropriate. But detachment was necessary.

Randy has that moving-through-syrup feeling he gets when enacting some emotionally huge transition in his life.

The stuff was tremendous, like drinking your favorite book.

I think I'm in love," she said. He clapped a bag over his mouth and threw up. HOW

Music, like violence, crossed all languages. These were the oldest and most complete ways of communicating that people possessed.

Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.

Pain results from a judgement you have made about a thing. Remove the judgement and the pain disappears.

For it is the nature of people to love, then destroy, then love again that which they value most.

Emotion is energy in motion. When you move energy, you create effect. If you move enough energy, you create matter. Matter is energy conglomerated. Moved around. Shoved together. If you manipulate energy long enough in a certain way, you get matter. Every Master understands this law. It is the alchemy of the universe. It is the secret of all life.

Feeling is the language of the soul.

Fear is an emotion that you have that is sponsored by a thought that you have, which produces an experience that you have of an event that has occurred in your life.

Love that is continually repressed becomes possessiveness, a very unnatural emotion.

That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

I like you a lot. Because you're funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that's not a good reason, but I can't help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—

never touching, never talking, just smiling and keeping our eyes locked.

I love you," I mumble. "Even though I'm a teenager and I'm not supposed to." "I love you too," Dad says. "Even though … eh . . . No. I don't have any jokes about it. I just do.