Quotes About Fragile

She believed men's egos were as fragile as eggs.

Their carefully relaxed demeanors hid a fragile defensiveness, as if they expected to be criticized at any moment and they weren't going to stand for it. They both seemed to cling so hard to their chosen personalities. I am this sort of person and therefore I believe this, I think this, I do this and I am right, I'm right, I'm sure I'm right!

Are you kidding?' said Amy. 'Good judges of character? Shall I name every cheating, lying little brat who hoodwinked them? Starting right at the top with Harry fucking Haddad who broke Dad's poor fragile heart?

Afterward she felt seedy and sexy and disheveled and filled with despair.

Love is like a Chinese mobile, comes with no guarantee.

If the heart was fragile, like a porcelain cup, and a great loss shattered it, all the time and kindness in the world couldn't hide the ugly cracks. Once the precious liquid of love had seeped away, you were left dry. Dry and empty. Echoing

T]he cardboard bookcase of her character had already collapsed under the strain.

sewn together but always falling apart.

I'm not the most together person in the world and it doesn't take much to make all the wheels fall off.

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away.

It's not a small thing, it's a pandemic, but economically we should not be in this position that we are this fragile as an industry. We don't go racing for three months and we are on the verge of collapsing, which is amazing.

I was going to complain about the noise, Lisa Livia said, still looking fragile but much better than she had before, but now I'm just impressed. Leave it to the army to mechanize an erection. Laugh now, funny girl, Shane said. That's gonna be a bridge in about a minute. And that bridge can hold over sixty tons, Carpenter said. So it's a strong erection, Lisa Livia said, looking at Carpenter. Oh, yes, Carpenter said, standing more erect himself.

God, this life is a cold, brittle thing. And yet it's all there is.

She's fragile because you let her be fragile.

My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook. It can detach at any moment, and yet it still does the job. All you need to do is turn the page to unstick it, so that it leaves a pale rectangular stain behind. I'm not impressed by what I've just written, it feels overwrought, but I hold on to the receipt.

A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them

Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.

Dragon fruit is very subtle, very delicate. So you want to be careful not to kill it with things that have very strong flavor.

I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks

It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is always difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet possible.

True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades.

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She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.