Shatter Quotes

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“I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart and
revenge
I think
has never looked so sweet.”
Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

Margaret Atwood
“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Erik Pevernagie
“It may be expedient to take stock of all the affecting pieces that might shatter in the wake of an emotional earthquake, once red flags come up in a committed relationship and an overarching scene has to be fashioned for a recast life experience. ("Waiting for the pieces to fall into place")”
Erik Pevernagie

Barbara Marciniak
“Only in the shattering can the rebuilding occur.”
Barbara Marciniak, Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living

Victoria E. Schwab
“Every object had a shatter point, a limitation to its tensile strength.
Apply enough force, and it would break.”
V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

Emmi Itäranta
“Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.”
Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water

Robin Hobb
“Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.”
Robin Hobb, Blood of Dragons

Ken Poirot
“One act of betrayal can shatter a lifetime of trust.”
Ken Poirot

Sarah Waters
“She shook her head, and closed her eyes. I felt her weariness then, and with it, my own. I felt it dark and heavy upon me, darker and heavier than any drug they ever gave me - it seemed heavy as death. I looked at the bed. I have seemed to see our kisses there sometimes, I've seen them hanging in the curtains, like bats, ready to swoop. Now, I thought, I might jolt the post and they would only fall, and shatter, and turn to powder.”
Sarah Waters, Affinity

Emma Pass
“To the NAR!'
'To freedom!' Jack Chimes in.
Max and I pick up our mugs and click them against everyone else's without looking at each other. I'm afraid that if I do catch his eye, I'll see my own horror at what we're getting ourselves into reflected there, and that the smile on my face will drop off and shatter like glass.”
Emma Pass, Acid

Akshay Vasu
“She was sitting in a dark room, curled up and her head buried on her knees. His name echoing in her mind, like a thunder over a seashore. She was torn between the happiness brought by the waves, that touched her feet and fear of losing herself in the chaos. created by the sound that shattered her whole world into pieces.”
Akshay Vasu

Kayla Krantz
“Inside, she was a pane of glass, two seconds before it hits the floor. A flash of beauty bound for destruction, and when the impact would come, she would not be able to fix herself.”
Kayla Krantz, Rise at Twilight

Anthony Liccione
“When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.”
Anthony Liccione

Akshay Vasu
“We often try to see the reflections of the people who left us in the people who come to stay with us and in the course of doing so, we often try to change them to someone who they are not and we often end up turning them into the pieces of same shattered mirror that used to hurt us before they came.”
Akshay Vasu

Akshay Vasu
“He stood in a room, looking around, seeing thousands of himself. He banged the walls made of mirrors, but they wouldn't break. Thier laugh filled his heart and with fear, he curled up and sat there. And then She came out of nowhere and wrapped her arm around him. She held his hand, together they got up and walked towards a wall. He raised his head and looked at the reflections, but all he saw there was only him. She turned and smiled at him and touched the wall. It cracked and shattered into pieces. She inside him broke all the walls around him. He was free, he was not held and haunted by his reflections anymore.”
Akshay Vasu

Akshay Vasu
“We often try to see the reflections of the people who left us, in the people who come to stay with us. And in the course of doing so, we often try to change them to someone who they are not. And we often end up turning them into the pieces of same shattered mirror that used to hurt us before they came.”
Akshay Vasu

Sonali Mondal
“Words are enough to both flatter and shatter a soul.”
Sonali Mondal, A Souvenir Called LOVE: A Love Story

Norman Cousins
“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”
Norman Cousins

Alex Nye
“All around him the branches of the trees had frozen solid, reaching out white fingers of glass that looked as if they would shatter in any breeze, or chime like musical bells. The world looked strangely magical.”
Alex Nye, Chill

Hiroshi Sakurazaka
“It took something massive to shatter a Mimic endo-skeleton in one hit. That it could kill me in the process was beside the point.”
Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill 1

“Weakness whispers coldly to the warrior, 'You are not strong enough to climb this
mountain The warrior’s Triumph answers back, 'We are made from that which Shatters Mountains”
Lady Alexis Essuman

“The healing process, in my opinion, is carried out via a sequence of processes abbreviated as AIR;
A - Admitting that you're broken.
I - Identifying your shattered and distorted areas
R - Repairing it with a hopeful and constructive attitude.”
Dr. Anhad Kaur Suri

Laurie Perez
“I’ve been traveling in a cocoon. It’s meant to rip apart.”
Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine

Shahid Hussain Raja
“I broke all my rules for someone, only to have them shatter every part of me in the end”
Shahid Hussain Raja

Shahid Hussain Raja
“They say a chain's strength is defined by its weakest link. Love is similar: it fortifies you when present, but shatters you the moment it leaves.”
Shahid Hussain Raja

Shahid Hussain Raja
“Some conversations may exhaust your intellect, but certain silences can shatter you emotionally.”
Shahid Hussain Raja