Collapse Quote by Jay Asher

To know the things that I've overcome and came out the other side with my chin up and my chest out, things way bigger…

— Caleb Plant

It was very strange, for I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel…

— Stephenie Meyer

I felt like someone had ripped my heart out and tossed it across the other side of the room. There was a burning, agonizing…

— Richelle Mead

...all of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that…

— Katherine Hannigan

And then, just like that, my heart broke. My face crumpled, my composure went and I held him tightly and I stopped caring that…

— Jojo Moyes

My heart was beating out of my chest.

— Swoosie Kurtz

My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to…

— Haruki Murakami

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

— Ozzy Osbourne

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

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out…

— Donna Tartt

My heart was closed. Cold. I was self-conscious and cynical.

— Tablo

Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild.

— Markus Zusak