“Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but ‘safe’ isn’t one of them.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest...”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“The heart is capable of sacrifice. So is the vagina. The heart is able to forgive and repair. It can change it's shape to let us in. It can expand to let us out. So can the vagina. It can ache for us and stretch for us, die for us and bleed and bleed us into this difficult, wondrous world.”— Eve Ensler, books.google.com
“He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filt…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race—the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress yo…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”— Catherynne M. Valente, amazon.com
“Instead of spending so much time thinking about what’s missing from your life, remind yourself (if only for twenty minutes a day), of everything you already have: from a comfortable bed to sleep on, to a roof over your head, to clean air, drinking water, food, clothes, friends, functioning lungs, an…”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.com
“There's a dark cloud hanging over my heart I can't see where it ends, or where it starts. I should get over you, but baby, it's so hard, with this dark cloud hanging over my heart.”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“I can't handle all this pain All we ever do is fight anyway Why we even tried I haven't a clue With hearts involved there's way too much to loose”— Miranda Lambert
“Between the hammers our hearts endure, just as the tongue does between the teeth and, despite that, still is able to praise.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com
“While I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side, and my days with your heart.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.”— A.A. Milne, amazon.com
“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”— L. Frank Baum, amazon.com
“Know that you do not belong to them, nor they to you. Your residency in their heart is not kept by right, not by some great puppetry of the universe, but by your kindness.”— Kathy Brown, thoughtcatalog.com