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“The feelings pile up, threatening to crack-up my chest wide-open ..”

— Gayle Forman

“My heart swelled in my chest, like a froth of bubbles begging to be released.”

— Demelza Carlton

“She felt like a bubble; empty on the inside, floating around life, fragile and ready to break.”

— Carla Reighard

“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

“I feel an emptiness open in my chest, coupled with a strange downward pull in my throat. I think, this is my heart sinking.”

— Kermit Roosevelt III

“As we look at each other, something inside me is trying to click, trying to fall into place. I feel it in my mind…

— Kendare Blake

“What do I do now? I didn't think my heart could break any more than it already has. The pieces still inside of me…

— H.M. Ward

“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

“And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic…

— Sarah Winman

“He takes a step closer to me and it suddenly feels like I’ve swallowed his heart because I have all these extra beats in…

— Colleen Hoover

“My heart is so light, I think it might be made out of air. It might float up and escape through the gap between…

— Robin York

“And that’s when it hit me. Like a building had fallen on me. The oxygen in my chest swirled into a vortex created by…

— Dennis Lehane