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Quotes About Broken

You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart." - Adieu
~ Kate Chisman
It's so hard not to be fascinated by the broken, to remember that a boy with a sad smile and a pretty face is not the boy that you should fall in love with.
~ Kris Kidd, Down for Whatever
...I'm innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
My nose is broken, " I said. Damn that Dumbo. Made me self-conscious."My ankle's broken, " he said."Then I'll come to you.
~ Rick Yancey
This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.
~ Miranda July
A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.
~ Mitch Albom
Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.
~ Mitch Albom
A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane. Sarah dragged her wreckage back to the house up to her bedroom, and down into a deep, dark hole.
~ Mitch Albom
All he heard was his own labored breathing, followed by an echo of that breathing. He inhaled and heard a louder inhale. He exhaled, and it exhaled too. Eddie squeezed his eyes shut. Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken, and Eddie knew.
~ Mitch Albom
But do not misunderstand - I turned him to stone from compassion. Stone men have stone hearts, and stone hearts cannot be wounded or broken. I would show you the same compassion, if you wish it.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
The heart is like a mirror. Do not prevent it from being broken. It's breakage is more dearer in the sight of its maker [Allah], than its safety. Almighty Allah being indeed the Maker
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Any system that permits its children to be killed with impunity would seem to be a system in dire crisis. Something at the very core of our system—and society—is irrevocably broken and must be fixed.
~ Mumia Abu-Jamal
Her heart beat with the rattle of broken wings.
~ N.M. Kelby
Ouf. That's the one you went with?" she said. "Magic mirrors are for artificer-track seniors." "The others I got were worse," I said, not specifying how. I could have whipped up that frenzy orb in one session with a handful of broken glass. Oh, I'd probably also have needed the life's blood of one of my fellow students, but who's being picky?
~ Naomi Novik
Los juramentos eran un poco como los corazones: roto el primero, los demás resultaban pan comido.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This ship is full of love and I'm afraid I've broken it.
~ Carrie Vaughn
the most wretched of sights, the just-crushed spirit.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
The 'Maybe Memories' album I remember having and listening until it broke. I remember it skipped one day; two or three songs wouldn't play on my CD player because I listened to it so much.
~ Kellin Quinn
Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.
~ Chris Murphy
Everyone agrees that our immigration system is broken. Building a wall with Mexico isn't going to fix it.
~ Raja Krishnamoorthi
It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.
~ Marco Rubio
Rolliver's inn, the single alehouse at this end of the long and broken village, could only boast of an off-licence; hence, as nobody could legally drink on the premises, the amount of overt accommodation for consumers was strictly limited to a little board
~ Thomas Hardy
It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
~ Thomas Harris