“...love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.”
“Happiness is a temporary chemical imbalance of the true state of mind.”
“And love is always complicated. But still humans most try to love each other, darling. We must get out hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
“Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.”
“The love of a liar runs shallow and the beat of a broken heart fades.”
“If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.”