#heart

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. ↗

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#laugh

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

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

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. ↗