“I just need to be mad for a little while, okay? I know it might not be the most mature thing, but there it is.”— Cynthia Hand, amazon.com
“To feel anything deranges you. To be seen feeling anything strips you naked.”— Anne Carson, amazon.com
“I am the whole world of my accumulated emotional experience; vast areas of which probably remain unexplored.”— George Lamming, amazon.com
“What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, whom you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you with joy and gratitude.…”— Fr. Pedro Arrupe, ignatianspirituality.com
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”— William Styron, amazon.com
“I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“You write a poem to discover what you’re thinking, feeling, where the truth is. You don’t begin by saying, now this is the truth.”— Maxine Kumin, amazon.com
“It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.”— Nina LaCour, amazon.com
“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it’s much the same.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there’s so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“I try to express how I feel, but it changes every day and so I’m finding it hard.”— Kate Nash, play.spotify.com
“Emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. In the middle they are acted. This is why all the world is a stage.”— Iris Murdoch, amazon.com
“I’m numb and I’m tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I’d been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I’m soaked to the skin with emotion.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“It was all right to be sad. It was all right to lament. It was all right to feel anger. But not all right to run away.”— Miyuki Miyabe, amazon.com
“At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.”— Jonathan Tropper, amazon.com
“The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.”— Madeleine Albright, query.nytimes.com
“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.”— Joyce Maynard, amazon.com