“Imagining and fantasizing did nothing but break her heart.”

“The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination”

“Hearts can break. Yes. Hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”

“There are two kinds of girls in this world. The kind who breaks hearts and the kind who gets her heart broken.”

“Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”

“To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.”

“He caught her by the wrist, brought her hand to his bare chest. Splayed her fingers over his heart. It beat against her palm, like a fist punching its way through his sternum. 'Break my heart,' he said. 'Break it in pieces. I give you permission.”

“And this is woman's fate:
All her affections are called into life
By winning flatteries, and then thrown back
Upon themselves to perish; and her heart,
Her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness,
Is left to bleed or break!”

“Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her”

“Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her.”