“We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place…”

—  Michael Chabon, book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1963

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