“Do not prioritize money over having a heartbeat.”— S. Craig Zahler, Mr. Edmington, Fred Melamed, imdb.com
“I laid on your chest till there's nothing left. Hear your heartbeat when I close the door, the scent that you left made me second guess. I wish that I missed you more.”— Carlie Hanson, open.spotify.com
“Fact it my ideal girlfriend is hot, smart, funny, into motorcycles & deaf. If I actually found her, I'd walk away from Brooklyn Decker in a heartbeat.”— Becky Hartman Edwards, Emmett Bledsoe, Sean Berdy, imdb.com
“Mad Sweeney: Your heart's not beating for this life anymore, dead wife. This life is done. Laura: Only felt my heart beat one time since I died. When I kissed Shadow. Mad Sweeney: That doesn't obligate him to feel shit. You're so worried about being alive, but to him you're already dead. Wait, you k…”— Maria Melnik, Laura Moon, Emily Browning, imdb.com
“But think of the hearts of these whales, beating warm against the sea, day and night, through dark and light, on and on for centuries; how the red blood must rush and gurgle in and out, bucketfuls, barrelfuls at a beat!”— John Muir, amazon.com
“Well, no. I mean, if you feel something, you feel something. It's not about personality matrixels and charts, it's all about the bu-bumps in your heart. You can't stop the pumps and bumps! Pumps and bumps! Pumps and bumps!”— Ako Castuera, Jesse Moynihan, Jake the Dog, John DiMaggio, imdb.com
“My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“There are people we meet in life who miss being important to us by inches, days, or heartbeats. Another place or time or a different emotional frame of mind and we would willingly fall into their arms; gladly take up their challenge or invitation. But as it is, we encounter them when we are disconte…”— Jonathan Carroll, amazon.com
“...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.”— Maynard James Keenan, amazon.com
“Heaven, I'm in heaven And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak And I seem to find the happiness I seek.”— Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, open.spotify.com
“The most frightening sound in the world is your own heart beating. No one likes to talk about that, but it is true. In the midst of deep fear, it’s a secret beast pounding a giant fist on some inner door, demanding to get in.”— Jonathan Carroll, amazon.com
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone’s heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”— Raymond Carver, amazon.com
“I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still.”— Mariko Tamaki, amazon.com
“The human heart beats approximately 4,000 times per hour and each pulse, each throb, each palpitation is a trophy engraved with the words ‘you are still alive.’ You are still alive. Act like it.”— Rudy Francisco, rudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“The hand on my throat moved down to cup my breast. A sigh eased out of me, followed by a quick intake of breath when he passed a thumb over my nipple, already straining against the lace. He tweaked it through my clothes, then put his hand flat over it again. A hand over my heart and his mouth on the…”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com