“People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.”

—  E. Lockhart

Source: Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

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