“Did you think that rats do not have hearts? Wrong. All living things have a heart. And the heart of any living thing can be broken.”

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

“You haven't broken his heart yet, have you?"
"No," Tessa said."I haven't broken his heart at all.”

“If the rat had not looked over his shoulder, perhaps his heart would not have broken. And it is possible, then, that I would not have a story to tell. But, reader, he did look.”

“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”

“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”

“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people”

“My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.”