“Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.”
“Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don t let someone because you re afraid or you ll lose them forever.”
“Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.”
“...it s easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...”
“...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...”
“The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to touch the heart and make one feel.”
“I pen you words from my heart neither paper nor pen would do as I lay them out in flowery fonts what more could you ask for as I am writing in your heart the love that I want to endure I am no Keats nor am I anyone but me a poetess longing for your touch get lost with me in my words as I serenade you with a forever quill.”
“I used to hope that if I went to church long enough, all my inside weight would go away. That ain t right. Jesus may have come to take away our sins, but he left our feelings right where they ve always been. I still have inside me some of what I ve always had, built up over a lifetime. I just keep adding to it, everyday, like everybody else, and hope the stew gets better the more ingredients I put in.”
“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.”
“And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It s a feeling like falling.”
“I am in the Aleph, the point at which everything is in the same place at the same time. I m at a window, looking out at the world and its secret places, poetry lost in time and words left hanging in space...sentences that are perfectly understood, even when left unspoken. Feelings that simultaneously exalt and suffocate.”
“Feelings and togetherness might cause hatred but indifference doesn t even know what feeling is.”