Quotes About Fragility

Si arrojas un jarrón al suelo, sus pedazos no volverán a unirse cuando tú desaparezcas —le había explicado Ren—. El mal que hacemos no puede ser deshecho; solo podemos tratar de compensarlo de alguna manera.

Maybe he was worried that I would get thinner and thinner, until I became as unfindable as my mother, and I felt a stab of compassion for him, imagining my father alone in this house with the white shadows of his two invisible women.

Hidden in the works of a mysterious clock are her many deaths, and yet the whole world is piled up before her on a banquet table again today. The timer, broken.

The wind has toppled the telescope over onto the lawn: So much for stars. Your brief shot at the universe, gone.

There are daisies In the ruined garden, still blooming strangely

Inflexible things break, sometimes spectacularly, when stressed.

Parents don't get that, though. They don't understand about the fragility of teen friendships. They don't understand how easy it is for things to break apart, how someone you thought would be by your side forever can just disappear, or turn on you, or decide she likes someone more than she likes you. Parents always talk about romantic relationships being so ephemeral and fleeting in high school. What they don't get is that friendships can be the same way.

Accidents illustrate that you have no control over your life, because from one moment to the next it could be taken away from you.

My tears were not hot and salty,and I imagined them melting my heart.They didn´t.They just made it mushy around the edges.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

How do you describe emptiness? Is it the air inside a bubble, the darkness in a pocket, snow? I think, yes, I was six when or seven when I first felt it, the dwindling that is depression.

He listened to a fire fighter tell of a woman he had found strapped into her seat, screaming. When he cut the seat belt, she fell apart. She was being held together by the seat belt. She died at his feet.

Before that she hadn't realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could know it over and shatter it.

Beautiful women. The world, at that time, was full of them, all of them furiously incandescent like dying stars.

Before that she hadn't realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter it.

Later, when Moody saw the finished photos, he thought at first that Pearl looked like a delicate fossil, something caught for millennia in the skeleton belly of a prehistoric beast. Then he thought she looked like an angel resting with her wings spread out behind her. And then, after a moment, she looked simply like a girl asleep in a lush green bed, waiting for her lover to lie down beside her.

Before that she hadn't realized how fragile happiness was, how if you were careless, you could knock it over and shatter

As if memory were a bead that might spring from her fingers, clatter to the floor, roll into a crack and disappear.

Like a child, she would not see beyond the demolished walls of her soap bubble which had encased her in its iridescence, promising scarves of brilliant colours, perfume, fine stockings, cosmetics, bracelets, rich warm cardigans, petticoats with frills and inset lace. Tablets of soap, bed socks and two handkerchiefs were weapons piercing her with old age.

Face aux archipels du passé, solides et insubmersibles, le présent incertain et précaire perdait toute consistance. Le réel ne résistait pas aux reflux de la mémoire.

Easy to break mirror; less easy to see oneself. (Facile de casser le miroir; - Moins facile de s'y voir.)

Nails can be varnished, But they also claw. (Ongles peuvent être vernis, - Mais ils griffent aussi.)

Truth is like a flying bird: It brakes suddenly, it falls to the ground. (Vérité est comme un oiseau qui vole: Il freine d'un coup, il tombe au sol)

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!