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I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story QUOTES

I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story QUOTES

1 " I used to think I knew all the answers. Then I thought I knew maybe a few of the answers. Now I'm not even sure I understand the questions. Nobody knows anything. "

― Pete Nelson , I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story

2 " Individual heart cells beat at their own rate when separated from one another, a phenomenon easily observed beneath a microscope. It has long been known that when they are pushed together, they will synchronize their pulses. Recent studies have shown, however, that heart cells begin to synchronize slightly before they touch. It is not known how they signal across this distance. Some scientists speculate that this method of communication may be able to cross great distances and may explain how social animals bond, or how pets seem to sense when their masters are coming home, or even how people fall in love, one heart calling to another. "

― Pete Nelson , I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story

3 " No animal has a heart quite like a dog's "

― Pete Nelson , I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story

4 " He wondered who was driving the train and whether they were headed toward home or away from home. Did the engineer know where love goes when it dies, or how it was possible that hummingbirds can cross the ocean while words can fail to fly half a pillow's distance? And on those cold winter nights when snow obscured the tracks, did he ever lose faith? That the rails would still be there, that the bridges would hold, that there really was a Vermont, that there really was a train, and that the clickety-clack he heard wasn't just the sound of his own heart moving away from him in the night, growing fainter and fainter, beat by beat. "

― Pete Nelson , I Thought You Were Dead: A Love Story