Quotes About Emotion

I screamed, which means I can't tell you the actual words.

The way Dad's face changes. The darkness. The words. The news that tells me what has just happened in a place at the bottom of the world. What does "crevasse" mean? I am shouting now. Screaming. WHAT DOES "CREVASSE" MEAN? I wanted it to go away. Every part of me, every nerve in my brain, was trying to dull the image, to shove it away, make it disappear.

love is the only emotion that expands intelligence

You sucked it up in your mother's milk, that hate.

The difference between a short story and a novel is the difference between an inarticulate pang in your heart compared to the tragedy of your whole life.

Something occurs, in the motion of the present, but it's already over. Because even then, even as she watched, she was already moving away from it, already thinking about how years from now she might tell someone about this.

For me, all stories are fiction. The only question is: Does it rattle the soul or not?

When he saw her, my brother stopped in his tracks and fell into her eyes so deeply you could hear the splash.

How easily something you thought was safely buried in your past could suddenly come back and cut you to the quick.

Love is both wonderful and foolish.

The problem of love lies in the way we woo.

Ishq and Mushq.

She had been like a roller coaster aficionado for whom tame county fair roller coasters were as good as the ones that spun you upside down and dropped you so fast your eyes turned red. It was all just a ride.

You know how when a woman gets angry, really angry, she can reach way back into herself and find rage enough to blow any man to pieces

the vocabulary of love was so tired.

I don't shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137 (from Montaigne, On sadness)

He couldn't have fallen in love with her in a couple of hours. Why not? I fell in love with her in a couple of minutes. I worshipped her immediately we met, the popeyed little excrescence.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. RUMI

Cuando haces cosas desde el alma, sientes un río, un gozo que fluye en tu interior. RUMI

The Celtics were so dominant in the 1960s that Jerry West stopped wearing anything green because it reminded him of the frustration the Lakers had endured during that decade.

Sam's heart felt as if it were being licked by a cat.

But to grieve; it's to die and be alive at the same time.