“His sniff rips a new piece off my heart.”
“To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.”
“Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.”
“Bleeding heart, he’d called her.Well. He should know.He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.”
“Like blood out of a wound, a keening wail rose from the bottom of my heart and ripped through the graveyard. I lowered my face to Hadassah's shoulder and went quietly and thoroughly to pieces.”
“My new employer made me get a drug test, so I ripped off my shirt, flexed my muscles, and said, “You suspect me of taking steroids, don’t you?”