“When you drink with a drunkard.
Take when his heart is content.
THE INSTRUCTION ADDRESSED TO KAGEMNI
Papyrus Prisse, pp. 1-2
Fragment”
Source: Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms
“Soaring hopes and crashing let downs. Fund raisers and family vigils. Big scares and little victories.”
Source: Things We Know by Heart
“Someone mentioned your name today,
took me down memory lane,
to a time very much younger,
a time more pure, more sane.”
Source: Lost in a Quatrain
“You are the ache in my heart!”
“Men, perhaps, might nourish both heart and mind, but for a woman there could be no such luxury... How readily the rules of female behavior--gentleness, acquiescence, ever-mindfulness--turn to shackles.
So, she thought, there must be declared a new kind of virtue: one that made the throwing off of such rules, and even such deceit as this required, praiseworthy.”
Source: The Weight of Ink
“It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.”
Source: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
“My own heart, like this wild place, has never been visited, and I do not know whether it could sustain life.”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“Nights I stay up writing about you, wondering where you've gone, my heart doesn't understand your absence, I do my best to reassure, but its erratic beating tells me it doesn't believe my lies.”
Source: Pain and Longing: Poetry and Photography
“And now in her deep heart an even sharper pain was stirring, a pain which would stay with her always.”
Source: The Green Knight
“She found a second blanket in the closet and curled up on the bed, feeling like the discarded toy of a spoiled child. She found a strange sort of comfort in the heat of her misery as the cold chilled her tears. In time, she would look up words like 'doormat' and 'wimp,' with Merriam-Webster definitions that would expose her to the faulty clockwork of her heart.”
Source: The Wake Up