Date: 1999

"Just as birds are lifted up into the air by their feathers and can remain wherever they wish, the soul in the body is elevated by thought and spreads its wings everywhere."

— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)

Date: 1999

"Well, my heart's running 'round like a chicken with its head cut off / All around the barnyard falling in and out of love."

— Stephin Merritt (b. February 9, 1965)

Date: 1999

"The cactus where your heart should be / Has lovely little flowers / So though it's always pricking me / My ardor never sours."

— Stephin Merritt (b. February 9, 1965)

Date: 1999

"Love is wrapped around my heart / Like a boa constrictor, babe."

— Stephin Merritt (b. February 9, 1965)

Date: 1999

"Caution, to prevent electric shock / Do not remove cover / No user-serviceable parts inside / Refer servicing to qualified / Service personnel" // Let this be the epitaph for my heart

— Stephin Merritt (b. February 9, 1965)

Date: 1999

"Who will mourn the passing of my heart? / Will its little droppings climb the pop chart?"

— Stephin Merritt (b. February 9, 1965)

Date: June 19, 2000

"The record she'd given me was playing in my mind, and I kept trying to shut it off."

— Packer, ZZ (b. 1973)

Date: June 19, 2000

"The words slid from my brain, and knotted in my stomach."

— Packer, ZZ (b. 1973)

Date: 2000

"Emotions, atavisms, would be set aside, while reason -- the nabob of all faculties -- went about its work."

— Amis, Martin (b. 1949)

Date: 2000

"I go back / to the world where your brain flooded suddenly though your heart / and lungs lived three more days."

— Sagaser, Elizabeth Harris