Alison McGhee (1960) American novelist
Source: All Rivers Flow To The Sea
“whiskey makes the heart beat faster
but it sure doesn't help the
mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just
from the deadly drone of
existence?”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
Variant translations:
Memory of sun fades in my heart
What is this? Darkness? Maybe! —
During the night comes
winter.
"Memory of the Sun" (alternate translation by Paula Goodman)
Thinking Of The Sun (1911)
“isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?”
Zelda Fitzgerald book Save Me the Waltz
Source: Save Me the Waltz
“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”
Fannie Flagg book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Variant: You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same.
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
“There's no way to make the pain play fair
It doesn't disappear just because you say it isn't there”
Sara Bareilles (1979) American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
"Eden"
Written by Bareilles and Matt Hales
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)
“If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet