#hea

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#copy #heard #i #imitated #mistakes

The path to paradise begins in hell. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#hell #paradise #path

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#detachment #heart #heartbreak #birth

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#heart #mother #birth

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels-and-demons #bridges #death #depression #desperation

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#heard #indeed #minded #mistresses #often

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#heart #reading #growth

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#growth #heart #growth

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much. ↗

— P.D. James

#pain #innocence

I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#observation