Air Quote by Alexandra Adornetto

I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.

— Richelle Mead

Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get…

— Glenda Millard

I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would…

— Tyler Hamilton

For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.

— Aimee Bender

A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw...safety

— Richelle Mead

I clung to nothing, in a way I was calm. But it was a horrible calm—because of my body; my body, I saw with…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“You cannot explain, with the limitations of language and inexperience, why your body can cause such a sudden, fumbling response in someone else, nor…

— Marya Hornbacher

Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.

— Jean Rhys

[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger…

— Evalyn Walsh McLean

My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.

— Jay Asher