“As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.” IfsHeartRealFoundNamesCuttingBloodHotLungsDollsRagsStickyIntestines Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.” MenHeartSoulPlayWholeUseRunningLungs Book:An essay on Christian philosophy Source: An essay on Christian philosophy
“I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.” HeartTwoMightRunningAgeBitsPiecesFootballLegsI RealizedOld AgeThirtyRisingRetiringBobWagesCurtainsLungsLacePuffGuinea Book:New and Collected Stories Source: New and Collected Stories
“People who are living donors who give kidneys. You can't give a heart and you can't give a liver, but you can sure give a lung - well, kidneys, anyhow. And that's where the main part of this whole thing is - one out of every eight people, I believe, is going to have some kind of kidney problem during their lifetime.” PeopleGivingBelieveWellsHeartKindWholeProblemI BelieveLifetimeEightLungsLiverDonorsKidneys Author:Larry Hagman
“Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.” HeartKindDoeTurnsGrowsGriefRainWarmSnowWeatherIceSettlingStomachCandleThickLungsTemperatureMistFrostLiverBeaconsLighthouseArteriesBowelsHumidity Book:Nocturne: A Play Source: Nocturne: A Play