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“I think the heart is kind of like a string.
It's difficult and hard, and there are times it can't be helped. And that's because it hurts as if a string, stretched across the chest, is being torn apart. Like strumming a guitar string tightened to its limit.
Sometimes it snaps, and you think it can't be fixed anymore.
But, if you put a new string like this, and have someone fix it for you, won't the wound heal, even just a little bit?”
―
It's difficult and hard, and there are times it can't be helped. And that's because it hurts as if a string, stretched across the chest, is being torn apart. Like strumming a guitar string tightened to its limit.
Sometimes it snaps, and you think it can't be fixed anymore.
But, if you put a new string like this, and have someone fix it for you, won't the wound heal, even just a little bit?”
―
“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“I have known many human beings with a full soul to their name who do not have half so much compassion or practicality as you.”
― Half a Soul
― Half a Soul
“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
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