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"Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth. She felt no pain. She saw no light. She heard, but barely. Her heart was still and silent. Yet she did not die."
"You see, faith means listening to your heart, not just your heard. It's not about ignoring facts; it's about being willing to see around them sometimes."
"But there was still something missing. Something that nagged at her-an emptiness she couldn't explain. There were mornings she woke with her heart pounding wildly and the sensation of arms wrapped around her. But the feeling slipped away the moment she opened her eyes, and no matter how quickly she squeezed them shut, she couldn't recapture the contentment she'd felt."
"Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light."
"The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?"
"You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth."
"She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered."
"Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing."
"The man whom fate employs to awaken love in the heart of a young girl is often unaware of his work and therefore leaves it uncompleted."
"Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?"
"White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young."
"Economized love is never real love."
"The happier a man, the more apt he is to tremble. In hearts exclusively tender, anxiety and jealousy are in exact proportion to happiness."
"Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera."
"No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival."
"A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve."
"If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down."
"When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse."
"What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life."
"Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism."
