#heart

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. ↗

— Violeta Parra

#stars

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#heart #hurt #word #wound #child

Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible—snow in summertime, a London winter without rain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #will-herondale #london

At least I don't look like a Christmas tree." "You look like the star atop the tree. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#compliment #daemon #heartwarming #katy #sweet

And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#lonely

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#heart #poetry #poem

How frail the human heart must be -- a mirrored pool of thought. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#human-heart #thought #journalism

Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#heart #love #name #names

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes. ↗

— Joan Jett

#joan-jett-and-the-blackhearts #the-runaways #victory

My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it and my winter coat, too. I hoped it didn't show too much. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#memoir