Fragile Quotes - Page 30

• Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

  Melissa Marr

  Crush, Feelings, Shells

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• We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Believe, Ambition

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• It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Catching Fire, Berries

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.

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• But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings.

  Jennifer Estep

  Night, Feelings, Assassins

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• only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are: two people in love – a love that nobody else could possibly understand.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Two, People, Denial

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

  Sara Gruen

  Elephants, Normalcy, Goes On

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• Unfortunately, in Russia this "Asian mentality,"still comes to the fore. But at the same time, it is obvious that there is a certain orientation toward the West. In the end, this is a fragile balancing act between the Asian manner of governance and high living standards that are guaranteed through Western technology.

  Garry Kasparov

  Technology, Russia, West

  Source: www.rferl.org

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