“And somewhere, buried away deep inside him, a hidden chamber of his heart opened.”

“What's inside is inside for a reason.What's hidden is hidden for a reason.What's buried is buried for a reason.”

“She knew herself the heart of a king buried in a sepulchre (in the land of his love) while the body of the king is elsewhere. My heart lies buried in there like Coeur de Lion (or whoever it was) who had his heart buried at Havre (or wherever it was) and the rest of him buried somewhere else.”

“When he spoke, there was an odd vulnerability to his deep voice. As if he were letting her peek inside one of the dark chambers of the heart he seemed so sure he didn’t possess.”

“The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.”

“Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder than diamond.”