Source: Our Lady of the Flowers
“My heart is your heart," he said. "My hands are your hands.”
Variant: And what if I'm the one who kills him?" "My heart is your heart," he said, "My hands are your hands.
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”
“my hands dead
my heart dead
silence
adagio of rocks
the world ablaze
that's the best
for me.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.”
See also: "Live or die, sink or swim" (George Peele, Edward I, c. 1584)
Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 133
“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”
Variant: My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
Source: Macbeth
“My dear hands. Farewell, my poor hands.”
Quoted in Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002) p. 381.
Said on February 27, 1943, during his last illness, after having said that he would never be able to play again.
Opening lines
The Everlasting Mercy (1919)
