“Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.”
“Our hearts are like starfish, regenerating what we’ve lost. We move forward, regroup, reconfigure; people find ways to be happy.”
“[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated. ”
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”
“I am starfish!”
“A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.”