Fragile Quotes - Page 6

• The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Frail, Knows, Indestructible

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• I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

  Ann Brashares

  Past, Suffering, Feels

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.51, Penguin

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• How did people get over this? They obviously did. Every day someone fell in love with the wrong person and had to pack up all their fragile, misguided hopes and unwanted affection, and move on to the next picnic table.

  Josh Lanyon

  Moving, People, Tables

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• Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain... You keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along - that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy - I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then... gone.

  Joss Whedon

  Pain, Thinking, Dust

  "Astonishing X-Men". Comic Book Series by Joss Whedon, 2004 - 2013.

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• Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.” She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—

  Phil Foglio

  Thinking, Hands, Iron

  Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio (2012). “Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel”, p.218, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.

  Nalini Singh

  Important, Mortals

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.235, Penguin

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• Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Strong, Sometimes, Life Is

  Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.220, Vintage

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• Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, like one movement could break him open.

  Marissa Meyer

  Wind, Mind, Movement

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• She seemed fragile like a moonflower – destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall.

  Juliet Marillier

  Fall, Night, Lovely

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• Jem’s eyes had widened, and then he’d laughed, a soft laugh. “Did you think I did not know you had a secret?” he’d said. “Did you think I walked into my friendship with you with my eyes shut? I did not know the nature of the burden you carried. But I knew there was a burden.” He’d stood up. “I knew you thought yourself poison to all those around you,” he’d added. “I knew you thought there to be some corruptive force about you that would break me. I meant to show you that I would not break, that love was not so fragile. Did I do that?

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Thinking, Laughing

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1024, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

  Andrea Gibson

  Pain, Heart, Thinking

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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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• You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.

  Patricia Briggs

  Games, Play, People

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• I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

  Shirley Bassey

  Strong, Independent, Successful

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• We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Evolution, Process

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