Full Quote by Candace Robinson

“My heart is a harness of nothing, deflated balloon, and a place of loss.”

— Candace Robinson

“You have to leave your heart to get on with it. It's rather like breathing. We don't have to remind ourselves to breathe.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Relate to softness of heart like the air that you need to breathe. It’s your living connection to goodness. Open your heart and it…

— John de Ruiter

“Inhale when I inhale. Exhale when I exhale. Breathe with me,for two beating hearts breathing one breath together become one.”

— Christina Westover

“Fill your papers with the breathings of your heart.”

— Anonymous

“Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor.” I felt my airway constrict. Damn, this was…

— Christina Lee

“I am breathless, hopeless, and consumed. I now know that I am between balloons.”

— Kimberly Russell

“...You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose…

— Leah Raeder

“I'm dying. I am dying. I have finally achieved what I set out to do. My heart is splitting open and I breathe in…

— Courtney Summers

“My heart swelled in my chest, like a froth of bubbles begging to be released.”

— Demelza Carlton

“I need you like I need my heart to pump blood through my body, like I need air to breathe, like we need gravity.”

— Rachel Van Dyken

“...My taut heart lurches heavily, like a sack in a cart, clattering downhill, towards a cliff, towards an abyss! It can't be stopped!”

— Vladimir Nabokov