“I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.”
“At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse”
“What exactly he would say, I couldn't imagine, but I felt sure that as soon as I had actually got everything off my chest, I wouldn't have to worry any more.”
“I felt that same tingly sensation begin in my hand, up my arm, to my chest and it was as if it jump-started my heart.”
“Luz felt as though all the millions of butterflies that were flying on this same journey south were fluttering in her stomach.”
“She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.”