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Quotes About Emotion

I love her. I love her to death." "You love her through death," I correct gently. "You don't stop loving someone just because they're not physically with you.
~ Jodi Picoult
He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.
~ Jodi Picoult
I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there
~ Jodi Picoult
Other things that leave you breathless: love so big that it tumbles you like a wave.
~ Jodi Picoult
And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.
~ Jodi Picoult
When you're an artist, it's because there's something inside you that you can't keep from spilling out. Maybe it comes in the form of sentences, or a grand jete, or stroke of a paintbrush. The end result can be a million different things. But the seed, it's always the same. It's the emotion there isn't a word for. The feeling that's too big for your body. To show someone your soul, you have to bleed. People who are comfortable, people who are content, they don't create art.
~ Jodi Picoult
If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them.
~ Jodi Picoult
It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.
~ Jodi Picoult
A mother has nine months to get used to sharing the space where her heart is; for a father it comes on sudden, like a storm that changes the landscape forever.
~ Jodi Picoult
So you see, this is why I never told my story. If you lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it. And if you didn't, you will never understand.
~ Jodi Picoult
I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.
~ Jodi Picoult
I know that the first person I kissed won't be nearly as important as the last person I kiss.
~ Jodi Picoult
Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers.
~ Jodi Picoult
I'm sorry. I love you, but it's an enormous conflict of interest. Her head snaps up, You love me? What? MY face is suddenly on fire. I never said that. You did. I heard it. I said I'd love to. No, Sage says, a grin splitting her face. You didn't. Did I? I'm so tired I don't know what the hell is coming out of my mouth. Which probably means that I don't have the faculties to cover up what I really feel for Sage Singer, with an intensity that terrifies me.
~ Jodi Picoult
In a cave at the far edge of the kingdom lived a man who had sworn off love. When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.
~ Jodi Picoult
If you ask me, music is the language of memory
~ Jodi Picoult
Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
What you don't sweat out when you're young will turn into tears when you're old.
~ Japanese Proverb
Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
~ Unknown
It is better to have no emotion when it is work. Do what needs to be done and do it coolly.
~ Louis L'Amour
Movies are dreams! And they work on you subliminally.
~ Carrie Fisher
Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
~ Kara Walker
I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
~ Bruce Springsteen