Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me... And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of." - Maximum Ride.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Grandmam, as I have seen in looking back, was the decider of my fate. She shaped my life, without of... WENDELL BERRY The scariest thing about 'Roy' was that it was sync sound. So, I had to worry about my dicti... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ It definitely affects your home life, but luckily my wife has been behind me 120 percent. She handle... DAN GREGG She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN ... I felt something and vowed that if I ever got a girl I would treat her right and never be bad or... MARKUS ZUSAK No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was ... NICHOLAS SPARKS [Having known Sofia for much of his life, Schwartzman had a few insights into how she works on the s... JASON SCHWARTZMAN It was a scramble situation. I picked up the ball and they had a guy on their team diving for the ba... BRIAN THORNTON you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR When I was a little girl, I used to try and bring sunshine to my mother. I felt so bad that she had ... SHERRILYN KENYON Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA I wish I were stronger and more secure in myself so that I could really spend my life with a guy lik... GARY SHTEYNGART For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she rec... STEWART O'NAN We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I tha... TEENA MARIE My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write... RAYMOND CHANDLER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was ... MIRANDA JULY I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and... VONDA SHEPARD If I had it my way, Harper and I wouldn't be standing in this room right now, we wouldn't be pressed... MOLLY MCADAMS I had tears in my eyes. It just killed me. She's amazing on the beam, and it's her senior year. I ju... LEAH SAKHITAB I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't been able to put it together for a whole match. I f... BRIAN BAKER I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like ... SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without a... JACOB RIIS To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner stor... NE-YO It's pretty exciting, ... It feels good for me that my wife has something other than me and the chil... SCOTT WILLIAMSON Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that w... SYLVIA PLATH When I hit it, I pretty much knew it was gone. It felt really, really good. It was right down the mi... HEATHER DOIRON Everyone in my family pretty much has gone here so it seemed like the only option. I think (Lott) al... JENNIFER HOWARD It just slipped off my hand. I had a good look. ... Once I saw I was open, maybe I got too excited. ... DANNY BROWN I got down to business and started writing furiously. I wore my fingers down to a callous state writ... GIN WIGMORE For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA It would have been a little ridiculous if I didn't play well. They name the whole thing after me and... ERIC MEISTER I couldn’t see her, obviously, but I knew exactly what she was doing. She’d sunk into the neares... JUS ACCARDO, TREMBLE Because the truth is, while bulimia is a devastating illness I would wish upon no one, it has taught... SHANNON KOPP She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a se... T.H. WHITE Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly. GINA GREENLEE My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pul... CARRIE UNDERWOOD would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing wit... TRUMAN CAPOTE Im hoping that shell talk after the ride about her experiences and the foundation a bit. GABRIELLE MURPHY She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolic... CARRIE FISHER I thought I controlled the zone pretty good for someone who hadn't pitched in eight months. I though... CARL PAVANO My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like t... DAVID WOOSTER We ran really well, ... We ... LARRY BELL I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna... LISA BEDRICK I now know for certain that my mind and emotions, my fix on the real and my family's well-being, dep... DAVID LOVELACE Every day was like a day out of someone else's life. Nothing had ever happened to me, and now everyt... KAMI GARCIA When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Phil... MIKE BIRBIGLIA When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emot... LESLEY MANVILLE The house was huge, and the third floor actually had a room that looked out over the football field.... DAVE TRESSEL They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM It really bothered me that this had happened to her so young, at the age of 17, and she had been giv... CATHERINE SMITH But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea ... DIANE MEIER You stand out like a fart in a church. JAMES PATTERSON Emotions have immense power. This power can propel you towards your dreams and goals, or sabotage an... STAN JACOBS It was the scariest wave that I had ever ridden, but it was a huge adrenaline rush. I was scared, bu... TIM BROLASKI My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better. SARRA MANNING The door opened, and it was like an apparition materializing before me, some sort of heavenly m... RICHELLE MEAD When I see her,” I said, “it’s like - I don’t know what it’s like. It’s like I never saw... SARAH WATERS I stared down at my hands and saw the blood coat them, how warm and real something felt when it wasn... CHARLOTTE MUNRO I felt someone behind me. I stopped and looked back... There was Mom, crawling behind me, without sa... AYA KITO I felt like a piece of my heart had been taken away from me, not knowing if I would ever see her aga... CARL DODD The emotions you see when you watch 'Narcos,' they're pretty much my emotions and the wa... WAGNER MOURA Cece was all I had. Without her, I’d be totally alone in the world. Oh, God. I probed her ge... JULIE ANNE PETERS I’m still not good enough for a girl like her, but she’s back in my life and she needs someone t... KATIE MCGARRY We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scra... JUDITH VIORST Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It fel... KATHERINE HEIGL You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS She had been waiting for someone to notice her, like, really notice her. She felt that that was the ... ROSE FALL In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of sha... D.H. LAWRENCE If I had thought the beef marrow might be a hell of a lot of work for not much difference, I needn�... JULIE POWELL Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will a... JANE AUSTEN What a good thing, for instance, it was that one princess should sleep for a hundred years! Was she ... GEORGE MACDONALD Jason knew his life would never be the same again. British intelligence now had an ace up their slee... MARK A. COOPER The purpose was, that I would go to Biddy, that I would show her how humbled and repentant I came ba... CHARLES DICKENS She deserves so much better than what I can give her. I don’t, however, think she deserves better ... COLLEEN HOOVER What was it like?” Manon asked quietly. “To love.” For love was what it had been—what Asteri... SARAH J. MAAS I feel more and more, every day of my life, how much my dear mamma has done for my establishment. I ... MARIE ANTOINETTE Except fang. I glared at him. "Go on, try to stop me, I dare you." It was like the old days when we ... JAMES PATTERSON When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a... AL PACINO I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined ... GILLIAN FLYNN Annie, who up until this very day had always felt like a child--which is why she could not marry, sh... ELIZABETH STROUT I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her wh... TAYLOR SWIFT Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered t... SHERWOOD ANDERSON And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save ... SUZANNE COLLINS DENIAL OF EMOTIONS Our culture does not handle emotions well. We like folks to be happy and fin... JOHN BRADSHAW The whole thing is horrifying. I still pursue it. I go to the media as much as I can. It has affecte... CYNTHIA HURTIE And yet how treacherous, I thought, after such neutrality, bordering on indifference, and occaisonal... OLIVIA SUDJIC I hug him tightly. “I can’t imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it fright... E.L. JAMES The thing that I consider most important about my work is this: I told it like it is. I told my read... CARL BARKS I was locating it pretty much wherever I wanted to [while warming up]. I felt pretty good. It really... CORY HENRY A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last. GEORGE ORWELL A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely ... LEA DELARIA I was having a bad day, and my friend said, 'Go wash your hair.' I thought it was really sil... KALEY CUOCO I wanted to spend more time with her; she was constantly in my thoughts, and right now the only thin... JULIE KAGAWA
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JAMES PATTERSON My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son. JAMES PATTERSON Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride. I like to think that's a promise I have n... JAMES PATTERSON Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business ... JAMES PATTERSON Oz thinks I'm beautiful," she whispered to the stars. JAMES PATTERSON My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not ... JAMES PATTERSON Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask... JAMES PATTERSON Amazon Connect creates a relationship with my readers that didn't exist before. Communicating direct... JAMES PATTERSON Honesty is always good, except when it's better to lie. JAMES PATTERSON Did you know that wasn’t me, the other Max?” I asked. “Yeah.” “When?” “... JAMES PATTERSON My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulys... 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