Quotes About Emotion

But sometimes it takes only a photograph and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the photograph was taken.

This knowledge sits in my heart, heavy as a paperweight.

Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing but a library of all tears in history.

A person who designs buildings is called an architect, but in the case of Prufrock Prep a better term might be 'depressed architect.

Very lovely indeed" —Quigley responding to Violet's comment about the view, while actually looking at her.

All good writing is like this. It is why a favorite book feels like an old friend and a new acquaintance at the same time, and the reason a favorite author can be a familiar figure and a mysterious stranger all at once.

There are some things you cannot explain to anyone, even when they have been explained to you, over and over, almost since the day you were born.

I can compare sadness to a car because both are quite capable of running me over.

Page thirteen of the Baudelaire file was not a crowded sheet of paper - there was just one photography and a sentence to make an author cry himself to sleep even years after the photograph was taken, or to make three siblings sit and stare at a page for a long time, as if an entire book were printed on one sheet of paper.

The Baudelaires were sad to see a framed photograph of a kind-looking man with a handful of crackers in one hand and his lips pursed as if he were whistling. It was Ike, and the Baudelaires knew that she had placed his photograph there because she was too sad to look at it.

Crying is the opposite of scolding, because adults are hardly ever allowed to do it.

Klaus had not told his siblings about the book, because he didn't want to give them false hope.

heart pounding

Es inútil que os describa lo mal que se sintieron Violet, Klaus y Sunny el tiempo que siguió. Si habéis perdido a alguien muy importante para vosotros, ya sabéis lo que se siente; y, si nunca habéis perdido nadie, no os lo podéis imaginar.

José!" Sunny shrieked, which probably meant something like "No way!

It can be powerful to write the name of a person you have kissed or even just someone you wish you had kissed, on a scrap of paper where no one else can see, or carved into the trunk of a tree where everyone can. It is even powerful just to write it down in your mind when you are alone.

If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.

It is very embarrassing to cry when other people can see you, but it is something we all do eventually.

Akroyd!" Sunny cried, a phrase which here means "Roger.

When we met, you were pretty, and I was lonely. Now, I am pretty lonely.

What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it, and wash it, and still never forget what has transpired - a word which here means 'happened, and made everybody sad

But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and what you want does not matter.

José!" Sunny shrieked, which probably meant something like "No way!

Es mucho, mucho peor recibir las malas noticias por escrito que alguien te las diga, y estoy seguro de que comprendéis por qué. Cuando alguien simplemente te da malas noticias, las oyes una vez y ya está. Pero cuando las malas noticias están escritas, ya sea en una carta, un periódico o en tu brazo con rotulador, cada vez que las lees es como si recibieses las mismas noticias una y otra vez.