Quotes about Emotion
Love is ancient and mysterious and you can't mess with it. If you do it just backfires and you meet with disaster.
— Alice Hoffman
There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.
— Alice Hoffman
Love was never a mistake, even when it wasn't returned.
— Alice Hoffman
He was so pale the freckles stood out on his face the way they did when he was upset or hadn't slept. She thought they might be telling her something if she could only understand the language of freckles.
— Alice Hoffman
Unable are the Loved to die, for Love is Immortality," the boy said. When he saw the way Jet was looking at him he laughed. "I didn't come up with that, Emily Dickinson
— Alice Hoffman
What she feels for him is so deep, she aches. She supposes this is what people refer to when they say the pangs of love, as if your innermost joy cannot help but cause you anguish as well.
— Alice Hoffman
She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter.
— Alice Hoffman
Who would have guessed you'd be crying over that old hay bag." But that wasn't it at all, Elinor saw that from the look on his face when he turned to her. That was the attachment, that was the way he held on to her.
— Alice Hoffman
and want can be a hundred times stronger than need, and a thousand times stronger than common sense. She
— Alice Hoffman
That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do as imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.
— Alice Hoffman
When your father doesn't love you, a stone forms inside of you, hard and sharp enough to pierce through bone.
— Alice Hoffman
She had fallen under water, under a spell, in love with love.
— Alice Hoffman