Jan-Philipp Sendker: "... there are wounds time..."

"... there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size."

—Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

Martha Beck: "The hardest lesson I..."

"The hardest lesson I have ever had to learn is that I will never know the meaning of my children's pain, and that I have neither the capacity nor the right to take it away from them."

—Martha Beck, Expecting Adam

Deborah Reed: "...and he wonders if..."

"...and he wonders if loving a woman, even one who breaks your heart, has a way of keeping a man going for another day."

—Deborah Reed, Carry Yourself Back to Me (p271)

Julia Cho: "It is good to..."

"It is good to be good at the small things, for the larger things can be quite heartbreaking."

—Julia Cho, The Piano Teacher

John Irving: "It broke her heart..."

"It broke her heart to know he was a good man, but not to know if he was the right one."

—John Irving, A Widow for One Year

Laura Munson: "But how quickly the..."

"But how quickly the heart lifts and falls."

—Laura Munson, This Is Not The Story You Think It Is

Maddie Dawson: "...I know sometimes a..."

"... I know sometimes a man can break your heart worse when he is far away but happy, and you realize how tangential you are to his real life."

—Maddie Dawson, The Stuff That Never Happened