“If you hear unwanted voices, just keep your heart singing.”

“You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul”

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.”

“There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.”

“She could hear in the darkness of her car how his breathing was quicker now; and her own was, too. She wanted to say their hears were too old for this now; you can't keep doing this to a heart, can't keep expecting your heart to pull through.”

“For what she'd asked him, in her real voice, a voice that only the heart could hear, was a simple question:Have you ever once loved another human creature so much that her life was more precious to you than your own?And his heart had replied in words just as plain:"Yes," it said, and the power of it nearly blinded her.”