“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”

“even then I would go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of your dear wan face, at the mere sound of your raucous young voice, my Lolita.”

“In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.”

“the gin kept my heart alive but bemazed my brain”

“My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.”

“Ada girl, adored girl, [...] I'm a radiant void. I'm convalescing after a long and dreadful illness. You cried over my unseemly scar, but now life is going to be nothing but love and laughter, and corn in cans. I cannot brood over broken hearts, mine is too recently mended.”

“I felt my life needed a shake-up.”