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The Heart Broke In QUOTES

The Heart Broke In QUOTES

1 " She loved herself, and her body’s resistance to all those poisons was the exact measure of how indestructibly young and beautiful she felt she was. "

― James Meek , The Heart Broke In

2 " People find different ways of keeping the ones they loved among the living, he said cautiously. Children. Memories. The names of things. "

― James Meek , The Heart Broke In

3 " What Dougie had actually said was You shouldn't get too up your own arse about being a dad. You get a wee man or a wee lassie to play with for a bit and the next thing you know there's this superfluous person knocking about who doesn't seem to know much about you, but it's all your fault. "

― James Meek , The Heart Broke In

4 " To marry, to start a family, to accept all the children that come, and to help them in this insecure world, is the best that a man can do. "

― James Meek , The Heart Broke In