The Heart Broke In Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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