Xavier Autrano

“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
― Rumi

“Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears, sir, as you dropped into the coffin where lay your first-born son; such tears, woman, as you shed when you heard the cries of your dying babe; for, sir, he was a man, and you are but another man; and, woman, though dressed in silk and jewels, you are but a woman, and, in life's great straits and mighty griefs, ye feel but one sorrow!”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

“See? Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You can't lose what you never had.”
― Judith Guest, Ordinary People

“We're selling vacuum cleaners.”
― Kyle Keyes, Under the Bus