“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone’s heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
— Raymond Carver
To hear one’s heartbeat in a moment of love is like feeling the whirring sound of the engine underneath you as you speed ahead on a motorway. Caught in the thrill of the moment, you may be reminded, briefly, that you are pushed ahead by more than just your own ingenuity.
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