My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.
Emma ForrestYou can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too.
Emma ForrestBut I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.
Emma ForrestI wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If I'm going to be sad, I might as well be the saddest a girl can get. And if I'm happy, I want to be the happiest. The trouble is, I feel highs so ecstatic that just being normal feels like a thousand-mile drop and being unhappy is excruciating.
Emma ForrestIt's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin." Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now.
Emma Forrest