“For once, I felt everything. And the biggest thing I felt was the way I felt about you. That was like a hammer to the heart.”

“I felt strong for once. I felt like I could do anything. Be anything.”

“ I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I felt I understood nothing of people and had no way to learn. I felt fear. Until you have felt fear, you cannot imagine it. Once you have really felt it, you know that all your earlier nervousness was but a pale shadow.”

“This was Brett that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and stepping into the car, as I had last seen her, and of course in a little while I felt like hell again. It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night is another thing.”

“I felt the same way the world felt about Kurtis; It revolved around him.”

“I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.”