Shattered Quotes - Page 4

• Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Life, Ruins, Vines

  "Pan-Worship: And Other Poems (Time And Love)". Book by Eleanor Farjeon, 1908.

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• Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

  Will Durant

  Song, Strong, Fall

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• We kissed for about the thousandth time, No promises, no demands, Just solid rebuilding of shattered trust.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Promise, Demand, Rebuilding

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold what’s broken, and the pieces fly all over, and though you think you might be able to find them all again, one or two will always be missing. I flew apart. I broke. I shattered like a crystal vase dropped on a concrete floor, and pieces of me scattered all over. Some of them I was glad to see go. Some I never wanted to see again.

  Megan Hart

  Thinking, Two, Broken

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• They belonged to each other totally, and always would, and that was that. But maybe everyone felt that way? Until the moment they realized they were just like everyone else, and everything they'd thought was real shattered apart.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Way, Moments

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the world has mostly ended because the cities we wander through are as rotten as we are. Buildings have collapsed. Rusted cars clog the streets. Most glass is shattered and the wind drifting through the hollow high-rises moans like an animal left to die. I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you're arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which road you took.

  Isaac Marion

  War, Thinking, Animal

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• ....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever.

  Kristin Hannah

  Cutting, People, Forever

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.236, Ballantine Books

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• What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flames, Eggshells, Break

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.607, Simon and Schuster

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• Jonas. Their rock. Shattered into so many shards. Holding himself together through the sheer force of will.

  Christine Feehan

  Rocks, Together, Force Of Will

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• No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

  Clarice Lispector

  Writing, Rocks, Steel

  Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Broken, Bottles, Reckless

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1494, Delacorte Press

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• Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet those headless corpses up there in Muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those Frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister -- they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed.

  C. S. Forester

  Years, Twenties, Would Be

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• Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Rocks, Forever, Storm

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• Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress as her hands explored his chest, his shoulders, his face. "I want to lay my kill at your feet," he said, more growl than words, and held her tight by her hair as he marked her neck with his teeth. She writhed against him. She wanted to bite him, she wanted to rip the flesh from his back, but most terrible of all, she didn't want him to stop. Her back arched, her body shattered, she howled.

  Annette Curtis Klause

  Rip, Lying, Kissing

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• I got half-a-dozen paintings from that shattered plate.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Creativity, Acceptance, Half

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• Bruce, you’re an ugly and silly old man. You’re very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You’re the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You’re a mess. You’ve gone wrong somewhere pal.

  Irvine Welsh

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Irvine Welsh (1998). “Filth”, Random House (UK)

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• Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

  George R. R. Martin

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Soul

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.407, Bantam

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• Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning back. The past is gone, the future, black. Serpents gather in their nest, And she stands above the rest. Shadows hunt; she hunts the shadow. The moon is risen; she stands below. She views her world through the eyes of others. Black and white; there are no colors, As she looks down upon a shattered youth. A shattered mirror shows a shattered truth.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Strong, Eye, Black And White

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• Alec looked down at the shattered pieces in disbelief. “You BROKE my PHONE.” Jace shrugged. “Guys don’t let other guys keep calling other guys. Okay, that came out wrong. Friends don’t let friends keep calling their exes and hanging up. Seriously. You have to stop.” Alec looked furious. “So you broke my brand new phone? Thanks a lot.” Jace smiled serenely and lay back on the grass. “You’re welcome.

  Cassandra Clare

  Phones, Guy, Calling

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Heavenly Fire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.

  Rumi

  Crazy, Ocean, Eye

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• But it is never over;
  nothing ends until we want it to.
  Look, in shattered midnights,
  On black ice under silver trees,
  We are still dancing, dancing.

  Gwendolyn MacEwen

  Ice, Dancing, Tree

  Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rosemary Sullivan (1999). “Gwendolyn MacEwen”, p.97, Exile Editions, Ltd.

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• He saved the world, but he shattered mine.

  Margaret Stohl

  World, Mines, Saved

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2012). “Beautiful Redemption”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Feelings, Unhappy, Unhappiness

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.41, Modern Library

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• Everyone always says that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul has been shattered.

  Abbi Glines

  Soul, Enough, Has Beens

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2018

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• bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

  Kami Garcia

  Heart, Moon, Glasses

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