“I’ve had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches.A heart is to be spent.”
“Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.”
“After all, didn't all fathers in their secret hearts harbor a desire to kill their sons?”
“We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.”
“I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out at first, but their hearts weren't in it. And after all, they had enough troubles of their own.”
“I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart.“ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you have never been beyond it.”