In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.
—Gayle Forman in Where She Went
It was a world full of feelings that I didn't have words for yet.
—Ava Dellaira in Love Letters to the Dead
You're not in love with me, not really, you just love the way I always made you feel. Like you were the center of my world. Because you were. I would have done anything for you.
—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney
People always think they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel sad for no reason at all.
—Libba Bray in Going Bovine
I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.
—Veronica Roth in Divergent
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
—Bob Hope
You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.
—Sophie Kinsella in Twenties Girl
The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.
—Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project
Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.
—John Marsden in The Dead of Night
You know what he taught me? He taught me to feel more. He taught me to give myself over to feelings. And now that's all I have. I'm swamped by them. I can't breathe because I feel so damn much.
—Ellen Sussman in French Lessons
I never stopped loving you. I wanted to. It would have been easier. But I can't turn it off with a switch.
—Abbi Glines in Until The End
The dying must often feel this way—steaming along just fine, while on ahead someone has torn up the rails.
—Annie Dillard
Even though I tried to stop feeling things for him, I just couldn't.
—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight
Don't break one girl's heart because you're trying to heal yourself of another one.
—Tarryn Fisher in F*ck Love
People know their feelings much sooner than they consciously accept them.
—Leah Raeder in Unteachable