“Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart…”

“I imagined in everybody I passed there was some story that they carried with them that would break your heart. So how could you have the temerity to approach that person and say, here's what's wrong with you?”

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.”

“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart”

“A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.”

“Perhaps the things that break our hearts are the very things that serve to open them.”

“Your heart has to break because love does not work with you but what you feel”

“Hearts don't really break. If only they could.”

“Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.”