"The heart's just a muscle, you know. It doesn't really break, it just gets bruised. Bruises go away. Especially if the muscle's healthy. So that's it! Just exercise your heart!" -- Wolfgang Laebmauntsforscynneweëld, in Forward the Mage, by Eric Flint & Richard Roach (Baen Books, 2002; ISBN: 0-7434-3524-9 1, LC: PS3556.L548 F67 2002, DD: 813'.54--dc21 2001056468)
[Not that bruises can't be plenty serious and painful too, of course -- I actually wound up with scar tissue inside my hand from one -- but it's still an interesting perspective-shift.]
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