“Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.”
“It is trite to speak of a broken heart. Hearts are not broken; they continue to beat, the blood still courses, even in the bitter after-days of betrayal. but something is broken when pain beyond words is suffered; some connection that formerly existed with light and hope and bright mornings is severed, and can never be restored.”
“a broken heart is the worst kind of pain!”
“Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him”
“talking above the pain of his broken heart”
“Why does ice cream go with a broken heart?” Kylie asked. “Because if you eat enough of it, it freezes the heart and numbs the pain for a bit,”