“Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.”

“The very man who has argued you down will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.”

Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist

“I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.'
'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.”

Rafael Sabatini book Scaramouche

“For why do you hasten to remove things that hurt your eyes, but if anything gnaws your mind, defer the time of curing it from year to year?”
Nam cur quae laedunt oculum festinas demere; si quid est animum, differs curandi tempus in annum?

Horace book Epistles

“Do you ever think of anything
but sex?”
“Yes, I do. Sometimes I think of waking up next to you. Or making you laugh.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

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Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

Laurell K. Hamilton book A Lick of Frost

“till we meet again, my heart awaits you.” “till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams””

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

“Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis