“Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.” KnowsWantStillsSometimesFeelingsLanguageFailingTroubleColdRight NowHappeningsSickInternationalEnglish LanguageDictionaryDeep DownTrouble Making Book:A Gathering Light Source: A Gathering Light
“Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.” WayTryingStoriesFeelingsHappeningsWork OutBest Way Author:Garth Nix
“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.” PeopleWarFeelingsRememberCertainLostNiceHappeningsWineDinnerTensionIgnoredDisgustedNice PeopleSun Also Rises Book:The Sun Also Rises Source: The Sun Also Rises
“Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.” WorldFirstsFeelingsNextFatherWishHappenedGoes OnPaperHappeningsWeakBlindGuiltImpressionKneesStomachNext DayEmmaColdnessFirst ImpressionUnreality Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings