This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are tou…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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This is my heart. You are touching it with your left hand. You are touching it with your left hand, not because you are left-handed, although you might be, but because I am holding it against my heart. What you are feeling is the beating of my heart. It is what keeps me alive. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Everything Is Illuminated, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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