Quotes About Fragile

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.

sách là má»™t sinh v?t y?u Ä'u?i, nó ch?u Ä'á»±ng sá»± bào mòn c?a th?i gian, s? các loài g?m nh?m, k? th?y, k? h?a, và e ng?i nh?ng bàn tay v?ng v?, c?c m?ch.

He had never killed a child; he had never arrested anyone. But he had broken the fragile dyke that protected the purity of his soul from the seething darkness around him. The blood of the camps and the ghettos had gushed over him and carried him away... There was no longer any divide between him and the darkness; he himself was part of the darkness.

Mornings are fresh like babies, uncontaminated by events. I find them sad for that reason. They're too fragile and naïve.

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness, fear adventure; and there is adventure in the ideal.

When those who found this skeleton attempted to disengage it from that which it held in its grasp, it crumbled to dust.

gentleness and tenderness are born with love, and the young girl who cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on the wing of a butterfly.

She was wiser than she'd been before. Now she knew how fragile life and love were. Maybe she would love him for only this day, or maybe for only the next week, or maybe until she was an old, old woman. Maybe he would be the love of her life... or her love for the duration of this war... or maybe he would only be her first love. All she really knew was that in this terrible, frightening world, she had stumbled into something unexpected. And she would not let it go again.

Nada je krhka stvar, jako lomljiva ako se njome pre?esto barata.

The smile he gave her was barely one at all. "We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war.

The Mularkeys all saw love as a durable, reliable thing, easy to recognize... Love could be more fragile than a sparrow's bone.

Mama gave a tired laugh. Leni understood. You could be as careful as a chemist with nitroglycerin around dad. It wouldn't change a thing. Sooner or later, he was going to blow.

Hope is a fragile thing, easily broken if handled too much.

Sunlight changed all that, and in May, when the rains paused, bright pink and purple azaleas bloomed overnight, and everywhere was lime-green new growth—on the lawns, in the shoots of fragile leaves along the roadsides

He also knew that love could freeze over, become a kind of thin ice all its own.

She was wiser than she'd been before. Now she knew how fragile life and love were. Maybe she would love him for only this day, or maybe for only the next week, or maybe until she was an old, old woman. Maybe he would be the love of her life... or her love for the duration of this war... or maybe he would only be her first love. All she really knew was that in this terrible, frightening world, she had stumbled into something unexpected.

We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war.

I hope you never know how fragile you are, Isabelle.' 'I'm not fragile,' she said. The smile he gave her was barely one at all. 'We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war.

We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war.

Don't take peace for granted, he'd said to her often. It can shatter like glass.

I am afraid t put it into words, this fragile impossible hope of mine, and more afraid not to.

Love could be more fragile than a sparrow's bone.