“The very heart of him.”

“Tell me what you need."
"You," she said simply, that one word tearing to the very heart of him. "Just you.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

“He had a sense that the old man meant to be good-natured and neighbourly; but the kindness fell on him as sunshine falls on the wretched — he had no heart to taste it, and felt that it was very far off him.”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

“Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

“He was very pure in mind and heart. He was a lover: a lover not only of his race but a lover of all mankind. His heart was so broad, so great, so magnanimous, and this gave him a most sincere feeling of absolute oneness with everyone. This is what made him so divinely great.”

Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) Indian writer and guru

“The little things, Emma. The gestures, the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him, even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

“It is the very joy of man's heart to admire, where he can; nothing so lifts him from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is.”

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

“To enter into the hearts of men belongs to him who can explore the human heart.”

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (1732–1802) British Baron

“O heart, with the very stones or bricks.”

Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976) Bengali poet