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“The mind has the ability to trick the body into believing it is happy and that all is well - the heart however, feels it. And as the saying goes, 'The heart wants what the heart wants'. Anything else just wouldn't do...”

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“I thought you could build a story that would function as a machine or else a complex of machines, each one moving separately, yet part of a process that ultimately would produce an emotion or a sequence of emotions. You could swap out parts, replace them if they got too old. And this time you would build in some redundancy, if only just to handle the stress. One question was: Would the engine still work if you were aware of it, or if you were told how it actually functioned? Maybe this was one of the crucial differences between a story and a machine.”

Emotion Story Build Machine Redundancy Engine

Book:All Those Vanished Engines

Source: All Those Vanished Engines

“Like waking up in our home one night to find ourselves in a blazing fire, we must be arsonists of emotion, forcing ourselves to grab only what is truly important to us before our life-rafters collapse in on us and we can no longer escape alive.”

Home Death House Emotion Fire Importance Saving Arson Arsonists

Book:Rise of the Morningstar

Source: Rise of the Morningstar

“We are betrayed by our maps of salience. They plot our narratives, identify our enemies and then coat them in distorting layer of loathing and dread. We feel that hunch - withdraw - and then conduct a post factum search for evidence that justifies it. We are motivated to fight our foes because we are emotional about them, but emotion is the territorial scent-mark of irrationality.”

Emotion Evidence Irrationality

Author:Will Storr

“The intensest feeling of the beauty of a cloud lighted by the setting sun, is no hindrance to my knowing that the cloud is a vapour of water, subject to all the laws of vapours in a state of suspension; and I am just as likely to allow for, and act on, these physical laws whenever there is occasion to do so, as if I had been incapable of perceiving any distinction between beauty and ugliness.”

Science Poetry Emotion Beauty

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Yes, happiness is the proof that time can accommodate eternity”

Philosophy

Author:Byung-Chul Han, The Agony of Eros

“When you pour out words from your heart to your lover, make sure they aren't on a paper vessel and lost to the wind.”

Love Heart Lost Love Quotes Emotion Wind Lover

Author:Dixie Waters

“Cath probably should have texted Abel by now, just to tell him that she'd made it - but she wanted to wait until she felt more breezy and nonchalant. You can't take back texts. If you come off all moody and melancholy in a text, it just sits there in your phone, reminding you of what a drag you are.”

Emotion Regret Anger Message Text

Book:Fangirl

Source: Fangirl

“Emotional security is just as important as financial security.”

Emotion Security

Author:P.K. Shaw

“He looked at her and could see she was trembling, her face even paler than usual and her eyes wide and vulnerable. His heart went out to her and he reached towards her, gathering her much smaller hand into his. “It’s OK Rosa. Whatever you have to say to me, it’s OK. Don’t be afraid – nothing will come between us now.”

Love Emotion Caring Tear Stepbrother Stepsister

Book:Lover by Moonlight

Source: Lover by Moonlight

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