“Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now? Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.”
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“I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion.”
“The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily.”
“Then your heart is a black, shriveled thing, because you absolutely betray me.”
“Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn't to open your eyes but to open your heart.”
“But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”