Richard Russo Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.

  Richard Russo

  Heart, People, Desire

• Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

  Richard Russo

  Heart, World, Leap

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.390, Atlantic Books

• The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.

  Richard Russo

  Real, Heart, Light

• To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.

  Richard Russo

  Heart, Kissing, And Love

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.272, Atlantic Books

• ... Baggott enjoys living on the knife edge between hilarity and heartbreak and that makes her a writer after my own heart.

  Richard Russo

  Heart, Knives, Hilarity

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