Kim Harrison Quotes

Black Rainbow' is about control and your emotions being repressed and controlled, and 'Mandy's' about all a volcanic eruption!

I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.

I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.

A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself.

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.

I don't want to show my emotions in public.

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.

I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.

Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words? Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside you that you didn’t dare let them escape in case they blew you wide open? Have you ever been so angry that you couldn’t look in the mirror for fear of finding the face of evil glaring back at you?

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.

I'm 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.

By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath the surface.