Heart Quote by Catherynne M. Valente Download Open image “Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.” — Catherynne M. Valente ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Heart Knives Ribs
“Her immediate, instinctive response was to distract herself with physical pain. She wanted to go to the kitchen and get a knife and cut… — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
“Her tender feet felt as if cut with sharp knives, but she cared not for it; a sharper pang had pierced through her heart.” — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“His declaration pierced through the muscle of her heart like a skillfully thrown knife. It was the kind of pain that made her feel… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“She looked at the knife, her throat tight with emotion. No roses or rings with him, but a knife with feathers carved into the… — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it, trying to… — Lili Wilkinson Copy Share Image
She stabbed him in the armpit, deep, and he dropped his sword. And died. So that's what is feels like, she thought as her… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender… — Sarah Sundin Copy Share Image
“She strode away, steeling both her heart and her belly against the hurt. It wasn’t just the body, she thought, that could shatter. And… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing. — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
“He fell silent, a silence with edges like broken glass that scraped across her heart.” — Sondra Allan Carr Copy Share Image
Each time it was like a stray bit of glass pressed into the softness of her heart, grinding, grinding, oh so silently until she… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
My heart jumps out of its cage to see what the fuss is about. Damn thing. Always so hopeful, but my voice hides it… — Sarah Wylie Copy Share Image
I love because there is not enough room in my heart to hate. — Rena Kornreich Gelissen Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
Love will fan the flame, and that flame will warm the heart that's waiting. — Michael W. Smith Copy Share Image
Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting. — Gennadius of Constantinople Copy Share Image
Set NOT your hearts on the flowers of this world. They shall fade and die. Prize the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
