“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
“Go for it, my heart said, my heart always said.”
– Kimberly Novosel, Loved
“My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.”
– Meredith Taylor, Churning Waters
“…You never forget your first love. It’s the most awful feeling in the world to love someone who can’t love you back..”
– Marie Coulson, Bound Together
“Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience – nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord…”
– Simon Van Booy, The Coming and Going of Strangers
