Ann Brashares Quotes

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.

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.

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

I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.

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

My heart beat Beats me senselessly Why's everything Gotta be so intense with me.

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

Emotions kick up. You try not to kick things up, but you go through things you can't help.

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

As If I could just turn my feelings off like a faucet.

At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently, however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling, to replace it with pain. It didn't help.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

I can't control my frustration.

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

I was an angry kid.

I struggle with control.

Sometimes I want to party, sometimes I want to fight and sometimes I want to cry.

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

Contrary to reports that I took the loss badly, I want to say that I went home last night and slept like a baby—every two hours I woke up and cried.

For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.

Emotions are my weakness. It is in my blood. It is very difficult to control.

I'm an emotional fighter; that's no secret. But it can be detrimental.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.