Falling Apart Quotes - Page 11

• memories fall apart too.

  John Green

  Memories, Fall

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.149, Penguin

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• See that's where it falls apart for me!" Anne cried. "What sticks in my throat is that God gets the credit but never the blame. I just can't swallow that kind of theological candy. Either God's in charge or he's not.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Fall, Credit, Sticks

  Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

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• I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Stronger, Crowds

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.6, Egmont UK

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• That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Jobs, Fall, Description

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre. Hank, at the end of this year I started thinking that a lot of life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.

  John Green

  Fall, Thinking, Years

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• Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and it's the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away. Why can't you see that? How can you talk about watching over me if you can't see that?

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Feet, Relax

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• People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.

  Markus Zusak

  Hurt, Fall, Heart

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• The minute I'm in a little pain ... your rough, tough, scary bad boy image totally falls apart.

  Christine Feehan

  Pain, Fall, Boys

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• I'm a lightweight easy to fall easy to break With every move my whole world shakes Keep me from falling apart

  Demi Lovato

  Moving, Fall, World

  Song: Lightweight, Album: Unbroken, 2011

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• I'm not putting up with this," she continued. "You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done?" "Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.

  Nora Roberts

  Fall, Worry, Done

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• It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. -Pema Chodron, from "When Things Fall Apart

  Pema Chodron

  Fall, Space, Waiting

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• The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Fall, Sleep, Views

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• One way or another, I have wound up destroying what I've loved. I've seen my dreams fall apart just when I seemed to achieve them. I always thought tat was just the way life was. My life anf everybody else's.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Fall, Way

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• It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

  John Green

  Life, Real, Fall

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.304, A&C Black

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• When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Fall, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything is still falling apart.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fall, Stills

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I think that you are the liar!" I say, my voice quaking. "You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the average person. And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness, that trust, that love is put to the test, it falls apart." I am crying now, but I am not ashamed of the tears shining on my cheeks or the thickness of my voice. "So you must have lied when you told me all those things... you must have, because I can't believe your love is really that feeble.

  Veronica Roth

  Liars, Believe, Fall

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• Mallory dropped her head to the steering wheel. "Look, I'm mad at you, okay? This isn't about me. I know my painful memories are relative. My life is good. I'm lucky. This isn't about how poor little Mallory has had it so hard. I'm not falling apart or anything." He stroked a hand down her back. "Of course you're not. You're just holding the steering wheel up with your head for a minute, that's all.

  Jill Shalvis

  Memories, Fall, Life Is Good

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Jan 26, 2013

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• By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms.

  John Green

  Fall, Together, World

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• Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart, probably before this chair. And you’re gonna fall apart. The cells and organs and systems that make you you—they came together, grew together, and so must fall apart. The Buddha knew one thing science didn’t prove for millennia after his death: Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

  John Green

  Fall, Cells, Together

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.181, Penguin

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• When a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. Sometimes it will break. At other times, it will simply die off. Then, there are those times when for no reason, it will simply fall apart. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let it go.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Fall, Mind

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 17, 2011

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• Jesus praised faith and trust – even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

  Richard Rohr

  Jesus, Fall, Failing

  Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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• As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!

  Bill Courtney

  Fall, Might, Towels

  Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.9, Weinstein Publishing

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• The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep America society cohesive. Asia can see it is not working.. In America itself, there is widespread crime and violence, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Integrity, Fall, Character

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• There’s one thing that’s been 'learned' maybe from Tunisia and Egypt that I think is a mistake. And that is that the existing ruler has to resign. He doesn’t have to resign. You take all the supports out from under him; he falls. No matter what he wants to do. This is the distinction in the analyses between nonviolent coercion in which he has to resign, but he’s forced into it, and disintegration when the regime simply falls apart. There’s nobody left with enough power to resign.

  Gene Sharp

  Mistake, Fall, Thinking

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