“The beating of my own heart
Was all the sound I heard.”
Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809–1885) British politician and poet
The Brookside.
“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
— Diana Gabaldon, book Dragonfly in Amber
Source: Dragonfly in Amber
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