"How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow."
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"Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions")"
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"There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply."
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"You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart."
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"It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats."
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"It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away."
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"The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names."
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"We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart."
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"Go get your heart broken."
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"Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night."
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"The heart does not lie."
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"A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart."
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"Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart."
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"I love anything really feminine. I love any sort of girly detail - anything with a bow or a heart on it, I'm immediately in love with."
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"My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats."
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"Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart."
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"For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have asked him to cross."
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"it seemed a lifetime ago i'd lain in bed with Lena and felt her breath tickling my chin and held her while she slept, felt her heart beating through her skin to mine. it was a lifetime ago. everything was different."
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"my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart."
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"This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust."
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