“His heart was simply to big for his body.”
Rodman Philbrick book Freak the Mighty
Source: Freak the Mighty
“Here lies Howard Campbell’s essence,
Freed from his body’s noisome nuisance.
His body, empty, prowls the earth,
Earning what a body’s worth.
If his body and his essence remain apart,
Burn his body, but spare this, his heart.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, book Mother Night
Mother Night (1961)
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