Quotes About Fragility

Oh Maga, en cada mujer parecida a vos se agolpaba como un silencio ensordecedor, una pausa filosa y cristalina que acababa por derrumbarse tristemente, como un paraguas mojado que se cierra.

Ocurre que el tiempo se me huye entre los dedos, no porque lo este perdiendo sino todo lo contrario, porque le pongo tantas cosas adentro que al final se me rompe como la red de Naylon cuando la sobrecargo de naranjas, y me quedo con un monton de piolincitos en la mano y docenas de planetas corriendo por el suelo.

Todo se deshace cuando lo agarrás, hasta cuando lo mirás –dijo Pola–. Sos como un ácido terrible, te tengo miedo.

Es terrible que un hombre sin grandeza alguna se tire de esa manera contra la pared. Nos denuncia a todos con el choque de sus huesos, nos hace trizas con la primera frase de su música.

Oh, life, life!" Bastidas complained, sipping his drink. "What is life? A little flame at the tip of a candle, exposed to a strong wind.

A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang Beli's first adult oath, one that would follow her into adulthood, to the States and beyond. I will not serve.

She's dark and heavy-browed and has a mouth like unswept glass—when you least expect it she cuts you.

Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper

He was like all boys: beautiful and callow, and like an insect he couldn't sit still.

Mankind had built a world that would take hundred years to die. A century for the last lights to go out.

The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet.

That was when you got to actually liking people, which was a problem. Things fell apart fast after that.

man sat in a concrete box long enough, thinking about his own death, and he boiled down to milky dust like water in a teapot forgotten on a stove;

We search for ourselves in our surroundings, and everything I saw was either brand-new or falling apart. Most

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

We are all made of broken glass. The school grinds along on grief and anger.

In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself—your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.

Hij wilde er met iemand over praten, maar hij durfde zijn mond nergens te openen, was bang dat het geluk uit zijn handen zou vallen.

His coughing was incessant and his weight was down to 115 pounds, skin-and-bones for a man 5 feet 10 inches tall. His energy level never flagged, but he seemed to be literally disappearing little by little, day after day.

Celestra Caine, you are about to fade." - FADE by Kailin Gow.

If Summer joined legions of other Black women trying to eek out concern for our lives and became a hashtag, then I would become open to scrutiny and intrusion my fragility couldn't withstand.

who knew everything about her rights and nothing about the fragility of her place in the world.

I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I'm intuitive, and I'm trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.

I'm not invincible.