Quotes about Emotion
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
He told me he wanted the chance to be in love again. He has no idea that being in love is bullshit. It's knowing someone down to their soul that matters. That's what love is. It's difficult and it's real and it doesn't change.
— Alice Hoffman
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
— Alice Walker
I do not grieve in the abstract, but in the heart.
— Alice Walker
I wish you were with me, or I with you.
— Alice Walker