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“She wondered what it sounded like when your heart broke. Glass shattering? The thundering roar of falling mountains? Or maybe the squishy rip of…

— Jen Wylie

“The cloud shot out in my direction. It swirled around in front of me, and it was as if the air danced, testing me,…

— Natalie Star

“The thought made me feel a gasping, grabbing tightness in my chest. Like someone was holding a pillow over my mouth, only the teeny-tiniest…

— Ciara Smyth

“Part of the problem was that I just could not conceal the impact she had on me. Whenever she was about I was nothing…

— R.M. Miller

“And maybe I was coping awfully well, I don’t know. Certainly I wasn’t howling aloud or punching my fist through windows or doing any…

— Donna Tartt

“I battle with invisible waves and imaginary vortexes and demons that are all too real and of my own making. I actually feel something…

— Gayle Forman

“We looked at each other for a minute, not saying anything, but I could feel the air between us shift. It became thick, sultry,…

— Colleen Houck

“The room was safe and warm and beautiful. The memory filled me with a love so intense, it knocked the air from my lungs.”

— M.K. Harkins

“I feel like there is a bubble in my chest that expands more by the second, threatening to break me apart from the inside.”

— Veronica Roth

“And until you feel it, the loss of air, the panic crawling through your skin, the desperation to inhale just one more time, you…

— Holly Renee

“It's hard to breathe, and I close my eyes. There's a hard lump of air in my chest, like I've swallowed a raincloud whole.”

— Haruki Murakami

“My breathing calmed and I left my body. I felt myself rising up from the floor, where I was pinned. It was a very…

— Olga Trujillo