Quotes about Emotion

Risky, thought Paul D, very risky. For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love. The best thing, he knew, was to love just a little bit; everything, just a little bit, so when they brok its back, or shoved it in a croaker sack, well, maybe you'd have a little love left over for the next one.

And for a reason he still did not understand, he began to cry. Love plain, simple, and so fast it shattered him.

Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, stupid people love stupidly, weak people love weakly . . .

She was one of the few things abhorrent to him that he could touch and therefore hurt. He poured out on her the sum of all his inarticulate fury and aborted desires. Hating her, he could leave himself intact.

Whatever's burning in me is mine

He dragged her under him and made love to her with the steadiness and the intensity of a man about to leave for Dayton.

Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs.

the girl's face was as tight and mean as broccoli

Forgiveness is first and foremost a decision. It doesn't begin with an emotion. It is not contingent on how you feel

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Passion always looks like sacrifice to people who are not in love.)

Comedy = tragedy + time.