“His heart was simply to big for his body.”

“I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body' ”

“But in the days that followed I realized he was only what he seemed: a giant baby with a heart too big for his body.”

“And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target he had been aiming for all along: Dustfinger’s heart, his stupid heart. It broke in two as he held Farid in his arms, it simply broke in two, although he had taken such good care of it all these years.”

“Cavall came simply and gave his heart and soul.”

“Here lies Howard Campbell’s essence,Freed from his body’s noisome nuisance.His body, empty, prowls the earth,Earning what a body’s worth.If his body and his essence remain apart,Burn his body, but spare this, his heart”