“Alex took a piece of my heart with him when he left.”
“For when Philippe, with his snapping eyes and his wild ways, left Savannah forever, he took with him the glow that was in Ellen's heart and left for the bandy-legged little Irishman who married her only a gentle shell.”
“My heartbeat faltered. He pulled away, taking a little piece of my heart with him.”
“Alex, seated on her left, was one of those men who acted like he‟d been issued a certain number of words at birth and didn‟t want to run out. It took a little effort to get him talking,”
“Now I was left holding the pieces of my heart, crushed by my own hands.”
“"When you left -- he left -- you took everything with you. But the absence of him is everywhere I look." - Bella Swan, New Moon”