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  • ‘Maid of Athens, ere we part, give oh give me back my heart!’ he yelled.

    One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

  • ‘Maid of Athens, ere we part, give oh give me back my heart!’ he yelled.

    One Flight Up Susan Fales-Hill 2010

  • Oh! with what a burning gush did hope revisit my heart! warm tears filled my eyes, which I hastily wiped away, that they might not intercept the view I had of the dmon; but still my sight was dimmed by the burning drops, until, giving way to the emotions that oppressed me, I wept aloud.

    Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus Mary Shelley 2004

  • “I wouldn't bother looking for your heart!” she shot back.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • “You look at my dog and I see murder in your heart!” she’d say, cradling the trembling terrier against her body, her tone sort of teasing, but sort of serious…the same voice she used when she was musing out loud about what they’d name their children.

    The Guy Not Taken Jennifer Weiner 2006

  • I imagined his body flying in the air like one of Sophie’s dolls, and how I’d disengage the child safety locks, roll down the windows, shriek That’s what you get for breaking my heart! and drive off into the sunset, just like Thelma and Louise, only with a minivan instead of a Thunderbird, and minus the dying.

    Goodnight Nobody Jennifer Weiner 2005

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