Kate DiCamillo - Heart Quotes

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Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me

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Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.

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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.

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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.

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Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still.

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Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

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There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves is a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.

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There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart...And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it.

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Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama? Mmmm-hmmm, said Gloria. She closed her eyes. I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.

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There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

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