“The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.”
Source: The Power and the Glory
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English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991Related quotes

Sussex http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/sussex.html, Stanza 1 (1902).
Other works

“Alas! alas! how plague-spot like will sin
Spread over the wrung heart it enters in!”
Title poem, section VIII.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)

“She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.”
Source: Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

A Birthday http://www.poetry-online.org/rossetti_christina_a_birthday.htm, st. 1 (1861).

Qur'an, 83:14
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.73, p. 332
Religious Wisdom