Quotes About Mending

There was a lot more that I wanted to tell her, like that everything in this beautiful treasure house of a world breaks, and sometimes things break so bad all you can do is hope to get your heart to stop bleeding long enough for you to sift through the ashes so you can try to gain some slight understanding. But some things that break real bad can be mended if you're lucky enough to have someone on your side with a ton of glue who won't give up."--Vicki Grove, Everything Breaks

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

Then it hits me. Maybe we're the pieces, What? Maybe that's it. With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces. Maybe, what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. Tikkun olam.

It's just time: the book I read, the letter I write, the window I look out of. Just a sleeve I keep trying to mend, the spool diminishing. Just my one hand writing words, my other hand weighing the silences between them. — Li-Young Lee, from "Cloudy Mirror: A Forward," The Winged Seed: A Remembrance (Simon & Schuster, 1995)

But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

It was almost as if there was a tear in the fabric I was made of, and he was the only color thread that would match to stitch it back up.

But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

Reparar el daño causado

Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

It takes the right doctor to repair a broken heart.

Trust can only be mended, it can never be fixed. Because people forgive, but they can never forget.

Silver threads and golden needles cannot mend this heart of mine.

and we would take pleasure in the simple mending of the world.

He would patch their ships and I would cast charms against biting flies and fevers and we would take pleasure in the simple mending of the world.

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

I smoothed my grandmother's starched white damask cloth over the battered pine harvest table in the dining room, and with my fingertips, traced the tiny patches where she'd so painstakingly mended it. If I looked closely, and I did, I could see the faintest ghost outlines of stains from family dinners long ago.

He said I might be able to fix things that are broken." I glanced around the room. "Did he mean this furniture?

We fit, you and I," he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. "Two broken pieces making a whole.

Lo que está roto puede arreglarse.

Everything was broken, meaning everything could somehow be fixed.

When two people are destined in heaven to be together, they are complete, and the repairing of the world can begin

THE TOWN WAS CALLED Hallowfell. We stopped for a handful of days because there was a good wainwright there, and nearly all our wagons needed tending or mending of some sort. While we were waiting,

We are all broken, but sometimes the jagged pieces fit together nicely.

a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,