“Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.”

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”

“...the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ...”

“She thought it lovely, and at the same time felt relief that, at the moment, her heart kept silent. A speaking heart could break-she knew that very well. As long as hers remained content, she'd stay relaxed and happy.”

“If your heart was hard, that would be better / You could only break it once or twice / After that it would be rid of blood and you could let it turn to ice.”

“Instead of killing herself, I wondered, could a person just shrink and crumple until she became nothing, until her traits and quirks wasted along with her body, until one day you realized that she had faded away?”