“Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.”

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“Early in the last century, the most powerful earthquakes ever to strike the stable heart of the continent rattled the Reelfoot Rift.”

Shawna Vogel science writer

“And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

“It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit. ”

John Denver (1943–1997) American singer, songwriter, activist, and humanitarian

“When you wish for so long that you could hear something, and then suddenly, with no warning, you do, is like a lightning strike and rain on parched ground at the same time. You're stunned, but you cannot hear enough.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.”

Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist

“The way we live ought to manifest the truth of what we believe. A messy life speaks of a messy and incoherent faith.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

“When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

“Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.”

Terry Pratchett book Going Postal