For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long gone, which I use as a commonplace book, a phrase which here means "place where I have collected passages from the most important books I have read." These passages hold some of the most crucial secrets in this sad and flammable world. ("Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography")
The heart is a pump, but also a furnace. What doesn't circulate passes through or burns away. There are laws about these things, which we have no hope of breaking. (Magdalen Powers, "The Heart is Also a Furnace," in The Heart is Also a Furnace: Stories, p. 37)
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