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Quotes About Fragile

De pronto aparece, porque esas son las reglas del juego, una aguja que revienta la burbuja que se ha estado cuidando como una inocencia: y ya, fin de la tregua.
~ Ricardo Silva Romero
Anyone who gets righteous...doesn't understand. Understand what? How hopelessly fragile and wrong we all are. About everything.
~ Richard Powers
ragged piece of thin glass jutted out of the socket, all that was left of the
~ Richard Russo
I can see hope inside it. Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. So fragile.
~ Rick Riordan
With humans... Leo felt helpless. They broke way too easily.
~ Rick Riordan
What is the fabric of time like? Black silk? A smooth twill, a rough tweed? Or lacy and fragile like something Mrs. Baxter would knit?
~ Kate Atkinson
How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot.
~ Kate Atkinson
Daisies, just starting to close their petals, littered the grass like fallen stars.
~ Kate Chopin
Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light.
~ Kate DiCamillo
He had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Edward felt a sharp pain somewhere deep inside his china chest. For the first time, his heart called out to him.
~ Kate DiCamillo
Boy, girl, you just better not try me." He made her swear on the Bible never to tell and never to follow, but still he lay awake a long time. How could he trust everything that mattered to him to a sassy six-year-old? Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
~ Katherine Paterson
His brow raised in wonder. "You're very understanding, Miss Fleming." Erienne laughed to hide her confusion. "My brother is of a different opinion." "Brothers generally are." The grin came back as she lifted her gaze, and his eyes moved leisurely over the fragile features, pausing at length on her soft red lips. -Christopher & Erienne
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
I am like glass to him, like water . .
~ Kathryn Lasky
The moment she entered she felt wrapped in a fragile golden light like a radiant mist that seemed to settle around her. What was it about the mews? she often wondered. It seemed to transform the simplest things, like stone and wood and the very air one breathed, into something different. When she crossed the threshold, she felt as if she had entered another world.
~ Kathryn Lasky
The soul is nothing but the innards of the finest watch, ruined before the watchmaker's hands even touch it, by its exposure to air.
~ Kathy Hepinstall
She shrugged. Ownership is a fragile concept.
~ Kay Kenyon
An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility
~ e. e. cummings
The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph.
~ Italo Calvino
Life is fragile, handle with prayer.
~ Amanda Hudson
The child was slender as a fleeting hope.
~ William Peter Blatty
The Cracked Eggs, he says, have broken up.
~ Winston Groom