Quotes About Emotion

Don't you wish love was so strong it could come back to haunt you?

How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turned the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been?

If you take away anything from this novel, I hope it is an awareness of the cognitive and emotional intelligence of these beautiful animals—and the understanding that it is up to all of us to protect them.

I woke up with an unfamiliar taste in my mouth, part sweet part sour, it took me days to realize this was simply hope.

A staccato kiss

This is true of anyone: the music we choose is a clear reflection of who we really are.

doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.

The feeling that she was going to explode, that she was too big for her own skin.

Truth vibrates when it's drawn across the bow of pain.

It turned out people truly did cry into their coffee cups.

What she really meant was: here is my heart, have a care.

She wondered if grief could make time run faster, like a glitch in a clock.

Aku menyayangimu, kataku, suaraku terdengar hampa karena tangis. Aku sangat menyayangimu hingga aku tak tahu aku akan hidup dengan siapa jika kau tidak ada. Dan bahkan jika usahaku menghabiskan waktu seluruh hidupku, aku akan membuatmu paham kenapa hidupmu membuat perbedaan.

Revenge, in theory, throbbed with adrenaline and was clean with conviction. In reality, it was rushing into a house on fire, and forgetting to map out your exit.

Can you fall for someone because you're lazy?

No. Because when you love someone, no matter what you tell yourself, it stops being a job. What does it become? Patrick thought for a moment. Revenge.

She watched Peter's face transform as she spoke, like the change of a season. Why hadn't she taken the time before, when she had it, to tell Peter that she understood?

There have been too many moments in my life when I've nearly gone off the rails, more overwhelmed by emotion than tempered by reason.

What will Dad say?" he whispered. His mother could not possibly have heard him at such a distance, but she seemed to understand his question. "I imagine," she said, stepping into a neat square of the brilliant afternoon, "he'll say, 'Hello, Max.

This is why there was music. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.

It would be far worse to think you were passionately wanted and loved and find out that you never were

He'd been rigid for so long, maybe he'd petrified clean through and there was no softness left inside him. How could she teach him to color his world when his fists were filled with charcoal?

Anger begins with folly and ends with regret-

Perhaps all great loves are that, a secret that can't be shared.