Denis Johnson Quotes about Heart

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We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that

Denis Johnson

Heart, Torn, Chests

Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.11, Macmillan

With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

Denis Johnson

Heart, Steps, Broke

Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.23, Macmillan

Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

Denis Johnson

Kindness, Believe, Heart

Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.31, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?

Denis Johnson

Heart, Soul, Mind

Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations.

Denis Johnson

Heart, Past, Childhood

Denis Johnson Quotes about Heart

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