Robert Cormier - Heart Quotes

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It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

Robert Cormier

Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

Robert Cormier

I have always pondered a tragic law of adolescence. (On second thought, the law probably applies to all ages to some extent). That law: People fall in love at the same time — often at the same stunning moment — but they fall out of love at different times. One is left sadly juggling the pieces of a fractured heart while the other has danced away.

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There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

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