But in the wake of 'Bullet,' all the guys wanted to know was, 'How's it doing? How's it selling?' How to tell them I didn't give a flying fuck how it was doing in the marketplace, that what I cared about was how it was doing in the reader's heart?

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want,need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart .

After the advice he had given, Peyna would have been stunned to see Ben here. He had forgotten that the logic of all the wise old men in the world cannot often stand against the logic of a boy’s heart, if the boy’s heart is large and kind and loyal. Ben Staad’s was all three.

Pain rises. From the heart to the head pain rises.

A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too.

But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa...

My heart was pounding, and I was sweating like I was there.