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Quotes About Fraying

How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
~ Valerie Plame
He fantasized about burning his fraying vestments when he finally reached home.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams.
~ Markus Zusak
The flyscreen door is torn at the edges. Fraying. I open it and knock on the wood. The sound rhymes with my heartbeat.
~ Markus Zusak
Our society's transgenerational social fabric is fraying. We're disconnecting. I think that's making us more vulnerable to adversity, and I think it's a significant factor in the increases in anxiety, suicide, and depression we are seeing currently, even before the COVID-19 pandemic.
~ Bruce D. Perry
They applied pitch to fraying hemp, and repaired torn or stressed sails.
~ Laurence Bergreen
The belt / worn by a Benedictine was made of leather / but a Franciscan's cincture was rope. The gaudy sleeve / I once put on is fraying by the hour.
~ Paul Muldoon
Her voice sounded like a string that was fraying.
~ Jodi Picoult