“Love. Sometimes it s not what you say. It s what you do and how you make one feel without the use of words. Sometimes words confirm your actions and cause a reaction without the use words.”
“He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he d heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by on wind and breaking his heart.”
“Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy; it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it.”
“These are tears and I am crying. It is not a painful sensation, as I always thought it must be. It feels like the purest expression of feeling that it is possible to have. And the feeling mixes everything up together. Happiness. Sadness. Relief. Sorrow. Love. A mixture if things no psychiatrist ever felt. It is the most wonderful mixture in the world.”
“We are social and political creatures but foremost we are a biological one. Our feelings, sentiments, emotions and attractions are generally because of our biological structure and appearance.”
“Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.”
“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”
“The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else s.”
“When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you re loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible.”
“I don t matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don t matter. Stupid, right? No, he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. It s how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You ve grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It s just new for you.”
“Just as verbally and physically abused children internalize blame, so do incest victims. However, in incest, the blame is compounded by the shame. The belief that ‘it’s all my fault’ is never more intense than with the incest victim. This belief fosters strong feelings of self-loathing and shame. In addition to having somehow to cope with the actual incest, the victim must now guard against being caught and exposed as a ‘dirty, disgusting’ person”
“English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.”