Fracture Quotes

“Their screams would echo through the house and reverberate against my eardrums until my mind would fracture. Years went by and with each fracture; I lost a piece of my soul until I became lost and empty inside.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness

“Alot can happen in eleven minutes. Decker can run two miles in eleven minutes. I once wrote an English essay in ten. And God knows Carson Levine can talk a girl out of her clothes in less then half that time.
Eleven minutes might as well be eternity underwater. It only takes three minutes without air for loss consciousness. Permanent brain damange begins at four minutes. And then, when the oxygen runs out, full cardiac arrest occurs. Death is possible at five minutes. Probable at seven. Definite at ten.
Decker pulled me out at eleven.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Lumani had never managed a failed delivery because, in the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure applied in the right places caused even the strongest men to fracture.
But this one? He'd watched her. Studied her. Observed what maybe even Uncle, the reader of people, had missed. This one was already fractured, and the lines between her broken pieces were not fissures but scar material stronger than whatever had once filled those spaces.”
― Taylor Stevens, The Doll

“You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.”
― Anthony Hopkins

“My brain scrambled to make room for the existene of these people. Grandparents I'd never known. They went from hypothetical, empty memories to blurry, unformed shapes in my head. Dead one second, alive the next.
Kind of like me.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“There will never again be a moment where I look at you and don’t remember how amazing it feels to be inside you. Do you understand that my body is going to crave you every time I see you?” Gracelyn merely nodded. Her voice failed her.”
― Jessica Jayne, In Flames

“Promise people with the hope of not letting any fracture misalign you from fulfilling those promises. That gives you a recommendable brand.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“Souls aren’t discrete units — or even units at all. They’re more like reflections of consciousness in a fractured mirror.”
― Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom

“When something or someone moves you, truly moves you, a part of you wakes affected and afflicted by senses you had never previously experiences. A part of you that you never understood, or perhaps never even knew, suddenly sparks into existence.”
― K.L. Hughes

“I'm okay," I said again, because if I said it enough, maybe it'd be true.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I wanted to rewind. Go back. Tell Decker to take the long way around. Go back even further. Ask Decker to stay inside with me. I would have told him something important, and it would've mattered. Before all this, it would've mattered.”
― Megan Miranda

“On one occasion, the students were asked in what natural form they would choose to be reborn. They excitedly cried out the names of different animals. When Yoshie's turn came, as his aunt Ineko would remind him for the rest of her life, he said he'd like to be turned into sand. And not just any old sand, he specified: the kind at the bottom of the ocean, so that no one could tread on him.”
― Andrés Neuman, Fractura

“I just wanted to know how the brain worked. If maybe I would've saved them, too. If we could be more than who we were destined to be.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I should've waited for the emotion to settle before I answered Decker. But I didn't. Now it was a moment. It was a moment, I was sure, that I would hate.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I'm not sure which way will guarantee I won't lose you. Overbearing or underbearing.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“The ruins were just a reminder that what had been was no longer. That everything we are will be gone someday. That I will be forgotten.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Nothing' could be worse than anything real. Like the dark. 'Nothing' can be the most terrifying thing of all.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“But there was a chasm, too much said, too much unsaid, to go back. Or forward.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I didn't know how to fix us. How to go back and unsay all the things I said. How to tell him all the things I'd been unable to say. And after all that, would there be anything left underneath? Was there anything worth saving?”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Funny how everything can change in an instant. From death to life. From empty to full. From darkness to light. Or maybe I just wasn't looking. I hadn't known that a light could be a feeling and a sound could be a color and a kiss could be both a question and an answer. And that heaven could be the ocean or a person or this moment or something else entirely.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“And then I understood: the worst part about drowning is the undying hope that maybe, just maybe, you're not.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“If we allow our differences to fracture our shared humanity, we will have subjugated ourselves to the lesser things that needlessly cast men as enemies.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough