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title: "2 Second Heart Quotes By Carolyn Parkhurst"
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> [How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/how-can-it-be-i-wondered-that-we-can-be-lying-in-bed-next-to-a-person/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

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> [“It is not the content of our dreams that gives our second heart is dark color: it's the thoughts that go through our heads in those wakeful moments when sleep won't come. And those are the things we never tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/it-is-not-the-content-of-our-dreams-that-gives-our-second-heart-is/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

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## More by Carolyn Parkhurst

> [“Anyway, I thought, it's wishful thinking, all this talk of ghosts. If the dead wandered among us, their spirits still present on this earth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/anyway-i-thought-it-s-wishful-thinking-all-this-talk-of-ghosts-if-the/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [“Walking out of the store with my parrot & sushi, I feel hideous, like everything I've done must be written on my skin. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/walking-out-of-the-store-with-my-parrot-sushi-i-feel-hideous-like/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [“That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth. No matter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/that-s-the-fundamental-flaw-in-the-illusion-that-writers-like-to/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/how-can-it-be-i-wondered-that-we-can-be-lying-in-bed-next-to-a-person/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [“This is happening; this is not fiction. And the thing about life? It doesn't have texture at all. Go ahead, feel the space around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/this-is-happening-this-is-not-fiction-and-the-thing-about-life-it/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [“I remember my wife in white. I remember her walking toward me on our wedding day, a bouquet of red flowers in her hand,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/i-remember-my-wife-in-white-i-remember-her-walking-toward-me-on-our/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [The conclusion I have reached is that, above all, dogs are witnesses. They are allowed access to our most private moments. They are there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/the-conclusion-i-have-reached-is-that-above-all-dogs-are-witnesses/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [It's true, isn't it, that each of us has two hearts? The secret heart, curled behind like a fist, living gnarled and shrunken beneath…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/it-s-true-isn-t-it-that-each-of-us-has-two-hearts-the-secret-heart/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [“Go on,"Lexy said. "What do you want to be today?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/go-on-lexy-said-what-do-you-want-to-be-today/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [The simplest thing that can be said about any person, any relationship, is that it's not simple at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/the-simplest-thing-that-can-be-said-about-any-person-any-relationship/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [“The unexpected thing, the miraculous thing, is when a car that's been shattered in a crash, that's been left in the rain to rust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/the-unexpected-thing-the-miraculous-thing-is-when-a-car-that-s-been/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/what-s-it-like-lexy-you-wake-up-and-you-feel-what-heaviness-an-ache/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/perhaps-she-saw-before-her-a-lifetime-of-walking-on-the-ruined-earth/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [“And sitting here now, with all of Lexy's dreams in my lap, I realize there are things about her I will never know. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/and-sitting-here-now-with-all-of-lexy-s-dreams-in-my-lap-i-realize/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

> [“You are my finest knight”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolyn-parkhurst/you-are-my-finest-knight/)

[Carolyn Parkhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolyn-parkhurst/)

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