Quotes About Fragility

Mirrors are for misery, nothing more...they record decay.

He felt like she was breaking him.

the flower gardens. And it will be the last chance

New friendships break pretty easily if something goes wrong at the beginning.

Popular success is a palace built for a writer by publishers, journalists, admirers, and professional reputation makers, in which a silent army of termites, rats, dry rot, and death-watch beetles are tunnelling away, till, at the very moment of completion, it is ready to fall down.

Of all things broken and lost, porcelain troubles me most.

We and the flowers throw shadows on the earth. What has no shadow has no strength to live

If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight.

I had nothing to fall back on, so the smallest accident was a major disaster.

The hills had looked friendly in the sunshine, but in this wild weather their aspect had changed. They were not so much unfriendly as indifferent – old, grim and enigmatical. They made one feel that human life was a precarious thing. They made one feel helpless and ephemeral as a butterfly. It was a horrible feeling

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint of a situation they don't like.

The most dangerous substance on earth is wood pulp flattened into thin sheets. I'd rather face a steel blade than certain pieces of paper

He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.

You look like a butterfly that's just flown in from the garden," Hunt said softly.

But one wrong half turn of a steering wheel, one patch of wet road, one out of control moment, and the amount of life measured out to Victoria Nolan had run cruelly short.

four broken eggshells, each half nested carefully in the other.

Sometimes there's no way amends can be made, mangled piles of frayed rope retwined. Sometimes life must remain fragile ... and sometimes forgiveness, while always sought, cannot be achieved, amends cannot be made.

I learned that life can change in an instant. It can flip over like a box of Styrofoam peanuts, and you're left scrambling to gather enough insulation to survive, before it all blows away. After that, you sink down into what's left, like a fragile glass vase with a crack in it, trying to avoid further damage. One bold year is worth a dozen timid ones....

You see, I could no longer be trusted around beautiful things and my weakness was apparent

This was the problem with having walls so hard and high and unscalable, she supposed. When they came down, they crumbled completely, shattering into nothingness. She felt utterly defenseless right now.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

Strength is an empty shell.