Quote by Jonathan Franzen

“So I’m figuring this is death. The little air left in the cockpit is toxic with marthenine, and I can only wonder how much…

— Kea Alwang

I think of a movie as a human body. You can feel the pump of the heart and the blood going through the veins…

— Sonia Braga

“Sometimes, I feel my breath coming in shorter, quicker, spastic bursts, feel my heart threaten to thunder through my ribs, feel sweat beading on…

— Shannon Celebi

Staring at a dead body in a movie to see if you can catch them moving or breathing.

— Anonymous

People are vomiting unrealistically in movies, and something must be done about it.

— Mary Roach

“Soft hearts bled, and in their pain they caused grief and havoc.”

— Sophie Jordan

“They rushed in like sickle cells forced through a vein.”

— Alex Adams

“Watching her made my heart ache, as if that organ had become linked to her emotional state, rather than targeting its primary task—keeping me…

— Tammara Webber

Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.

— William Shakespeare

“IMAGINE YOU ARE Siri Keeton. You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one hundred forty…

— Peter Watts

“Cor cordium, heart of hearts,” I replied, referring to the moment when a friend had seized Shelley’s heart before the flames had totally engulfed…

— André Aciman

“I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have…

— Markus Zusak