“Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat
delicious
but not rare
who sucks the juices
drop by drop
and bloody-chinned
grins
like a God.”

“You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful graces of God.”

William Kent Krueger book Ordinary Grace

“To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

“Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water… remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

“Find that person who, looking into your eyes, can read your heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

“Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;
We are happy now because God wills it.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

“Well, you have to find that rare someone for whom you’re not putting on a show. Someone who shines a spotlight in your direction—not because you’re who they need you to be, or who they want you to be…just because you’re you.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.”

Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997) Czech bookwriter and writer