“Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.”
Source: Voyage in the Dark
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novelist from Dominica 1890–1979Related quotes
“I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat”
Source: The Six Rules of Maybe
House of Incest (1936)
Context: The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.
“I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat”
A Coat http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1393/
Responsibilities (1914)
Context: I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyes
As though they’d wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there’s more enterprise
In walking naked.
“It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.”
Variant: It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 11.
“Not one scar on my heart came from the enemy. They all came from people who said they "loved" me.”
Character Thomas Shelby
Cagliostro: the Splendour And Misery of a Master of Magic by W.R.H. Trowbridge, (William Rutherford Hayes), (August 1910) https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Trowbridge%2c%20W%2e%20R%2e%20H%2e%20%28William%20Rutherford%20Hayes%29%2c%201866%2d1938
“Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.”
Endgame (1957)