Quotes About Emotion

And love. I am here because of love.

Why was I thinking about this? Oh, yes—the roses. Something to keep. Something gone.

The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday

I don't remember what book it was - it almost doesn't matter, because the sensation of being read to is so much more powerful than any individual story.

most people don`t know my name, and nobody knows hat to call me in relation to you.

Some people have lives; some people have music.

and all I could think was that I should have been the one with the camera, because the two of you were such a funny picture. Instead, we have this blurry, happy shot, which must mean something to you if you carry it around like this, folded to fit.

The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing. Noticing the way she smells like oversugared coffee, and the difference between her smile and her photographed smile, and the way she bites her lower lip, and the pale skin of her back. I just want the pleasure of noticing these things at a safe distance-I don't want to have to acknowledge I am noticing.

I have never wanted a lover. In order to have a lover, I must go back to the root of the word. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.

The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It's as much breath as touch, as much no as yes.

hang me/like a dead rose/preserve me/and my petals won't fall/until you touch them/and i dissolve

That's what makes it a good photograph. You think you know what's going on in her head. but the truth? No matter how good a photograph is, you can never tell what's going on in the person's mind. There's no way to get from here to there.

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you're in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself. If the moment doesn't pass, that's it -- you're done. And if the moment does pass, it never goes that far. It stands in the distance, ready for whenever you want it back. Sometimes it's even there when you thought you were searching for something else, like an escape route, or your lover's face.

indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising, I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.

Up or down. We're you in an up or down?

LOVE is one kind of abstraction ...

When people say love is blind, they act like that's a good thing. But some people find their way around in the darkness a little better than others.

His "devoted" is italicized by sarcasm, underlined by hurt.

Thinking is your favorite thing to do, isn't it? Sometimes it's endearing but sometimes it's completely exhausting.

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he's living it—he wonders what that means.

If there's no feeling of fear then there's no need for courage.

The heart knows nothing except its own mind.

No sólo está narrando la historia, me la está dando.

Ariel, look at me. Look at me. Look at me.