“The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would know better.”

“The heart wants what the heart wants”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

“When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I want to know what would Amelia think of it. I want you to be mine. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart, Amy.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

“I don't want to say something cheesy like 'home is where the heart is,' but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you.”

Melissa Senate (1965) american writer

“But I watch my brothers give their hearts away and I think, Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.”

Jacqueline Wilson (1945) novelist

“Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

“The heart wants what it wants.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“Whereas if the heart be moved,

Although the verse be somewhat scant,

God doth supply the want.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest