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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

Carson McCullers

Years, Wreckage, Columns

Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.

Stefan Zweig

Flower, Book, Men

Stefan Zweig (2009). “The Post Office Girl”, Sort of

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To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

Josh Lanyon

States, Wells, Packages

Josh Lanyon (2010). “All She Wrote”, p.64, Samhain Publishing

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Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

Sandra Brown

Gone, Next, Moments

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But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects

Catherynne M. Valente

Beautiful, Girl, Two

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From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free. For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality.

Sara Teasdale

Hands, House, Shining

Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already so fragile in men's minds, is that men dissociate from women and prove their manliness through aggression, we're encouraging a culture of violence and sexuality that's detrimental to both men and women.

Jessica Valenti

Dirty, Mean, Men

Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.172, Seal Press

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The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter burning water and hope to marry an ideal husband or get yourself laid and broken as soon as possible. Alternatively, stop being a tea-glass woman!

Elif Safak

Husband, Glasses, Iron

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It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Moore

Opportunity, Voice, People

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Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai

Gosho Aoyama

Strong, Rain, Flower

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there was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was 'mean' when Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford falling down all the time. No one ever accused Dana Carvey or Darrell Hammond or Dan Aykroyd of 'going too far' in their political impressions. You see what I'm getting at here. I am not mean and Mrs. Palin is not fragile. To imply otherwise is a disservice to us both.

Tina Fey

Fall, Mean, Here I Am

"She's the Boss: Tina Fey on Sarah Palin, Sexism, and More" by Sheila Marikar, abcnews.go.com. April 5, 2011.

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In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.

Muriel Barbery

Lying, Believe, Mirrors

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How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?

Franny Billingsley

Inspiring Love, World, Spiritual Love

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The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.

Johnny Cash

Bars, Beast, Frail

Song: The Beast In Me, Album: American Recordings, 1994

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Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

Teresa Medeiros

World, Made, Gentle

Teresa Medeiros (2013). “A Whisper of Roses”, p.172, Amber House Books

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...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

Keith Ablow

People, Warning, Facts

Keith Russell Ablow, MD (2007). “Psychopath: A Novel”, p.13, St. Martin's Press

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Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

Nicholas Sparks

Song, Love Is, Odds

FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 05, 2011

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My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.

Mary Balogh

Use, Benefits, Too Much

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Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many perils. It may shatter under the blows of criticism, evaporate with competition's heat, sink to the bottomless depths of others' indifference. Tend to your dream. Protect it as you would a fallen nestling. Until the day when it—and you—will fly.

Jerry Spinelli

Dream, Blow, Competition

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I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

Ellen Hopkins

Crush, Flower, Hands

Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

Leonard Cohen

Sky, Names, Secret

Leonard Cohen “Atras Das Linhas Inimigas De Meu Amor”, 7Letras

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We were broken, brittle and fragile. The question was, were we still precious to each other? Or, instead of everything falling into place, had it fallen into pieces?

Megan Hart

Fall, Broken, Pieces

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There are many things I don't know, but quite a few I do. I know you can't be lost if you know where you are. I know that life is full of precious and fragile things, and not all of them are pretty. I know that the sun follows the moon and makes days, one after another. Time passes. The world turns, and we turn with it, and though we can never go back to the beginning, sometimes, we can start again.

Megan Hart

Moon, World, Sun

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I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Mary MacLane

Self, Analysis, Constant

Mary MacLane (2014). “I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days”, p.20, The Floating Press

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And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.

Tosca Lee

Pain, Heart, Joy

Tosca Lee (2015). “Havah: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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