“One of the troubles is this: the heart isn't heart-shaped.”
“Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.”
“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”
“But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.”
“the heart shaped bullet”
“The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.”