Quotes About Fragility

The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.

Life is so fragile.

What I've had to learn is that I'm also fragile.

Where Democrats have a real toehold to criticize Republicans is that families still feel very financially fragile. About 2 in 5 adults would struggle to come up with $400 in an emergency.

I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.

Singing in front of people, I learned a lot more about fragility and strength.

After his kisses and hugs it feels like without them my body will fall apart into pieces.

I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.

He said, You're so tiny, like a doll, you look like you might break. I wanted him to break me. Part of me did.

for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above ground for burned mermaids and sick vampire girls for wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair

There was a collage of dead butterflies on the wall.

The homes of so many skeletons. People who used to fight over the last blueberry muffin at the breakfast table, get down on their knees to scrub bathroom floors, and kiss one another good night, thinking they were at least relatively safe. Now they are just dust in the debris.

As his lips moved with exquisite gentleness from the bruise in her hairline to the bandaged cut over her left eyebrow, he knew that he somehow possessed the power to kiss her and make her better. It was a puzzling, inexplicable kind of certainty that came only in dreams. It was an idea so complex and fragile that if he even blinked, he feared he would lose it.

In spring, Granny would send me off to pick bluets, violets, and windflowers. As the weeks passed, she'd ask for yellow lady's slippers and bleeding hearts, then roses and white rhododendron clusters that grew along the stream. She'd always seem to know the day when the mayflies danced and died. When I'd come back from whatever venture she'd sent me on, she'd talk about how life was precious.

Boas is only a man, my dear, and men are not always S strong as they portray themselves. - Noami

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

Qué valor tenía una promesa para una mente enferma?

If I run I may fall down and break myself. But could you not be mended? asked the girl. Oh yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know.

For all our claims and gestures of dominion over this earth, all our gravity-defying explorations beyond it, all our artistic triumphs, all our athletic feats, we are a breakable species

They were playing the music, minds, bodies, and souls stretched near to the limit, but it was also true that the music was playing them. A balancing act of excruciating fragility, but to Claude sweet beyond words, sweet beyond imagining.

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.

A finger's touch had been known to topple civilizations.

he really cared for Fannie Mae! He admired her . . . and she could hurt him because he admired her and felt . . . felt this way.

Tleilaxu eyes were not immune to tears.