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Quotes About Fragile

I just have to get rid of this piece of glass,' said Anne. 'I guess something broke here earlier?' 'It was me,' said Patrick.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
a face like a crème brûlée after the first blow of the spoon
~ Edward St. Aubyn
She remembers him once telling her that inside the Marie-Jeanne cave, sounds carry weight and travel in waves strong enough to possibly crack some of the most fragile karst. She imagines herself standing at the lowest depths of this cave, in the Abyss, and hearing again what he whispered in her ear during their wedding dance. One thing, MJ This is our one thing now.
~ Edwidge Danticat
my love is building a building around you,a frail slippery house,a strong fragile house (beginning at the singular beginning of your smile)a skilful uncouth prison, a precise clumsy prison(building thatandthis into Thus, Around the reckless magic of your mouth) my love is building a magic, a discrete tower of magic and(as i guess) when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall crumble the mouth-flower fleet He'll not my tower, laborious, casual where the surrounded smile hangs breathless
~ ee cummings
tan dolorida, tan pero tan dolorida que se sentía estallar.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
You've never been married, so you don't know, but it is a fragile thing. Nothing ever goes away, everything stays inside it. It is a different reality.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Her heart was an invalid convinced that it would not survive many more sunsets.
~ Alethea Kontis
Trust was such a delicate thing, so fragile, not easily earned and harder to repair.
~ Alex Kava
Life is so fragile that any parting can be eternal. We can never be sure that we will still have an opportunity to ask for forgiveness and be forgiven.
~ Alexandra Feodorovna
Bendecida la fuerza de la Roca! Yo tengo el corazón como la espuma
~ Alfonsina Storni
Regardez moi ce petit corps maigre, ce lendemain d'orgie ambulant.
~ Alfred de Musset
War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.
~ Alice Walker
Human nature is weak.
~ Anthony Fauci
Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.
~ Alberto Fujimori
This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism; Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be.
~ Mary L. Trump
Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.
~ Donald Judd
I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
~ Bear Grylls
Take good care of our fragile planet.
~ Kalpana Chawla
History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.
~ Richard Lamm
She hurried off, leaving Rose feeling like the tiny soap suds left over from a burst bubble.
~ Regina Doman
Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She had a light way of sweeping, as if removing the dirt were not as important as moving the broom over the ground. Her way of sweeping was symbolic; so airy, so fragile, with a broom she tried to sweep away all the horrors, all the loneliness, all the misery that had accompanied her all her life...
~ Reinaldo Arenas
But in the darkness of her room he was reminded that helplessness was often a portal to God, because rarely did the fragile, self-serving human pray for things in his complete control.
~ Rene Gutteridge
If the breath of her voice had dribbled off the edge of a roof it would have made icicles.
~ Rex Stout
He had to remember what she was. Human. Breakable. And he was an animal who liked to play rough.
~ Rhyannon Byrd