Know That Feeling Quotes

“Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.”
― Tiffany Reisz, The Siren

“She watched him adoringly, and brightly, and exultantly—in the way you can watch only when you are wearing a new hat, a hat with a bluebird of happiness on the brim.”
― Teffi, Subtly Worded

“But Nina seemed incapable of having positive feelings without also suffering their negative opposite: When Tom wasn’t there she worried she would lose him, then she got annoyed at herself for not being a strong, independent woman who didn’t need no man, then she would beat herself up for not allowing herself to feel her feelings, then she would get tired and eat something she probably shouldn’t and THEN she would punish herself for squashing her feelings with food…you get the picture. It was exhausting sometimes simply being alive.”
― Abbi Waxman, The Bookish Holiday of Nina Hill