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“But, alas, he never really belonged in either place, the sad fate, I am afraid, of those whose hearts break and then mend in…

— Kate DiCamillo

“He was afraid that his body would come loose, all his bones spilling out like a building collapsing, like a picket fence clattering apart.”

— Robert Cormier

“Fear, they learned, did not live in the heart or mind. It inhabited the stomach like a bad oyster. There was nothing to do…

— Stephen P. Kiernan

“Hearts were beautifully fierce yet fragile things.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

“He was beyond damaged. He was broken. Smashed to bloody pieces. He was alone in the world without the one person who could make…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“There was something about the fear of death that kept humanity on its toes. Without it, things fell apart fast.”

— M.D. Cooper

“He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely…

— Patrick Süskind

“amidst the horrors of war, it became apparent that there was no way he could possibly survive the carnage. And if by some stroke…

— Julia Quinn

“He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.”

— V. Theia

“Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again…

— Mary Gaitskill

“They weren't scared, or dispossessed, or fragile. They were possible.”

— Justin Torres

“This man, who’d rushed in to hold together all the splintering pieces of my world and forced them back together before they were completely…

— A.L. Jackson