Adam Rapp Quotes about Heart

I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying

I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't a radio playing; the same way you can hear those blackbirds flying when they're not in the sky

Adam Rapp

Song, Heart, Talking

Adam Rapp (2011). “33 Snowfish”, p.35, Candlewick Press

I imagine a soul is a little perfect crystal egg floating in your chest. Somewhere deeper than where they put your heart. Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can't find it with all their machines and microcameras.

Adam Rapp

Heart, Doctors, Eggs

Adam Rapp (2012). “The Children and the Wolves”, p.9, Candlewick Press

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system. Snow settles in the liver. The bowels grow thick with humidity. Ice congeals in the stomach. Frost spiderwebs in the lungs. The heart fills with warm rain that turns to mist and evaporates through a colder artery.

Adam Rapp

Grief, Rain, Heart

Adam Rapp (2002). “Nocturne: A Play”, p.79, Macmillan

Adam Rapp Quotes about Heart

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