Quotes About Fragile

He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. I don't see how matters could become worse, he muttered. I am already besotted with a needle-tongued, conceited, provoking ape leader of a lady. Her head jerked up. Besotted? You're nothing like it. Vengeful is more like it. Spiteful.

was to come. She lost her fragile grasp on control, unaware of everything but the implosion of heat, the wave of sensation that made her muscles ripple and her

Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.

The only happiness you have is writing something new, in the middle of the night, armpits damp, heart pounding, something no one has yet seen. You have only those brief, fragile, untested moments of exhilaration when you know: you are a genius.

pretty face, I mean vase.

I put my hand on my chest and closed my eyes. I have a dinosaur heart, cold, massive, indestructible, a thick meaty red. And I have a glass heart, tiny and pink, that can be shattered. The glass heart belongs to Pollux. There was a ping. To my surprise, it had developed a minute crack, nearly invisible. But it was there, and it hurt.

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.

Perhaps you and I have lived with this miracle too long to be properly appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.

Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs of the revolutionary reformers have no significance; for in a vortex of chaos, only force and appetite signify.

Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best

PLEASE BELIEVE that I am falling apart.

But the camera sees what he does not say. A camera is a thing easily broken or purloined; its fragility makes it fastidious. A camera requires law, order, the thin blue line. Seeking to preserve itself, it remains behind the shielding wall, observing the shadow-lands from afar, and of course from above: that is, it chooses sides.

Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

D'Artagnan was amazed to note by what fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended. He

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.

It was a moment made of glass, this happiness; it was the easiest thing in the world to break. Every minute was a world, every hour a universe.

A glass breaking on its own portended death.

The secret name sounded like glass, something broken and strange

I thought he knew me better than most...Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he'd picked up at a farm stand, but flowers all the same. That was the end; that was how he ruined everything.

He was pale as salt. Although

All joy was thin ice to Sister Lucy.