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Quotes About Heart

When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of the joy that kills.
~ Kate Chopin
The heart jealous of the soul!
~ Kate Chopin
I'd thought I had recovered for good from that sadness, but as I felt my marriage disintegrate, the memory of my raw yearning for babies and my husband's refusal to have them with me came back to me as part of the reason I was now leaving him. It felt like the heart of why I was so lonely with him.
~ Kate Christensen
Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
~ Kate DiCamillo
All words at all times, true or false, whispered or shouted, are clues to the workings of the human heart.
~ Kate DiCamillo
My heart, thought Edward, my heart is broken.
~ Kate DiCamillo
There are hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Flora's heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside her.
~ Kate DiCamillo
The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his heart.
~ Kate DiCamillo
And now you have a small map of the princess's heart (hatred, sorrow, kindness, empathy), the heart that she carried down inside her as she went down the golden stairs and through the kitchen and, finally, just as the sky outside the castle began to lighten, down into the dark dungeon with the rat and the serving girl.
~ Kate DiCamillo
She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing what she had long suspected she could do, and she could not deny that it was gratifying in the extreme.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Dan selama perjalanannya itu, ia jadi tahu- bahwa hati yang paling rapuh sekalipun dapat belajar menyayangi, kehilangan, dan menyanyangi lagi
~ Kate DiCamillo
Despereaux thought that he might faint with the pleasure of someone referring to his ears as small and lovely. He laid his tail against the Pea's wrist to steady himself and he felt the princess's pulse, the pounding of her heart, and his own heart immediately took up the rhythm of hers.
~ Kate DiCamillo
The Criminal Element spoke often, and passionately, about the nefarious activities that every human being is capable of. Not only did it insist that the human heart was dark beyond all reckoning; it also likened the heart to a river. And further, it said, If we are not careful, that river can carry us along in its hidden currents of want and anger and need, and transform each of us into the very criminal we fear.
~ Kate DiCamillo
The longer he marched, the more convinced Peter became that things were indeed hopeless and that an elephant was a ridiculous answer to any question- but a particularly ridiculous answer to a question posed by the human heart.
~ Kate DiCamillo
You know, my eyes ain't too good at all. I can't see nothing but the general shape of things, so I got to rely on my heart. Why don't you go on and tell me everything about yourself, so as I can see you with my heart.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light.
~ Kate DiCamillo
He said, 'I forgive you, Pa. And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his own heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.
~ Kate DiCamillo
the human heart was dark beyond all reckoning; it also likened the heart to a river. And further, it said, "If we are not careful, that river can carry us along in its hidden currents of want and anger and need, and transform each of us into the very criminal we fear.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Flora's heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside of her.
~ Kate DiCamillo
All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Edward felt a sharp pain somewhere deep inside his china chest. For the first time, his heart called out to him.
~ Kate DiCamillo
To become sensible of oneness with the Divine heart before any sense of separation has been felt, this is surely the most beautiful way for the child to find God.
~ Kate Douglas Wiggin