Broke Quotes - Page 25

• What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

  Anais Nin

  Hands, Fragile Things, Keepers

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• I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.

  Veronica Roth

  Hate, Eye, Mad

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• Meg! I love you! I want to marry you!" "That's weird," she said without stopping. "Only six weeks ago, you were telling me all about how Lucy broke your heart." "I was wrong. Lucy broke my brain.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Love You, Heart, Brain

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• How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times Creation's mighty seed - For Man has broke the Fellowship With murder, lust, and greed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Men, Greed, Lust

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.21, Anchor

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• I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it this once, because even now I want you to see it. I don't love you anymore, of course I don't, but there's still something I can show you. You know I want to be a director, but you never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

  Daniel Handler

  Love You, Directors, Plot

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• I wore it, this careless thing you don't even remember giving to me from your bag. It wasn't a gift, this thing I'm returning. It was barely a gesture, almost forgotten already, this thing I wore like it was dear to me. And it was. No wonder we broke up.

  Daniel Handler

  Giving, Bags, Gestures

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.179, Egmont UK

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• The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?

  Daniel Handler

  Stupid, Ideas, Done

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• Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

  Rex Stout

  Disgrace, Catastrophe, Being Broke

  Rex Stout (2010). “The League of Frightened Men”, p.87, Bantam

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• The guy who broke up with me... he was exactly like you, in the beginning. Charming, and nice. They're all like you in the beginning. But I always end up like this. And I can't do it anymore.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Nice, Guy, Like You

  Lisa Kleypas (2012). “Rainshadow Road”, p.25, Macmillan

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• The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails, and a thick stripe down his whip-like tail were still gray. He was crawling along the ceiling like a bat, wings held to make sharp angles and claws extended. It just about broke my creepy meter.

  Kim Harrison

  Wings, White, Long

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• I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

  Charles Bukowski

  Half, Towns

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• So", says Jack at at last..."you broke up with Connor". Wow. So we're straight to the point. "So", I reply defiantly. "You decided to stay". "Yes, well...", "I thought I might take a closer look at some of the European subsidiaries." He looks up. "How about you?" "Same reason." I nod. "European subsidiaries".

  Sophie Kinsella

  Looks, Might, Wow

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• The tall thief rushed down the stairs and grabbed her, swinging her around as he laughed. "And I've been thinkin' you forgot me," he said, placing her on her feet once more. "Just look at you! Tan and fit and wearin' the clothes of a Bazhir-" Alanna looked up into his friendly hazel eyes and broke into tears.

  Tamora Pierce

  Eye, Feet, Clothes

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “The Woman Who Rides Like a Man”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• With each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me.

  Denis Johnson

  Heart, Steps, Persons

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Annoyed?” said Sophie. “Why should I be annoyed? Someone only filled the castle with rotten aspic, and deafened everyone in Porthaven, and scared Calcifer to a cinder, and broke a few hundred hearts. Why should that annoy me?

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Heart, Annoyed, Castles

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• To all the guys who broke our hearts - we wouldn't appreciate what we have today without you.

  Emma McLaughlin

  Heart, Appreciate, Guy

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• ... until Miri could not help it any longer and she laughed out loud. The sound broke the game. Peder looked at her. He reached out, and she thought he meant to grab her straw or perhaps yank her hair as he used to when they were little. But her put his hand behind her head and, leaning forward, pulled her face to his. He kissed her. One long, slow kiss.

  Shannon Hale

  Kissing, Hair, Hands

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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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• Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Church, Looks

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• Let me tell you something 'bout these rich Uptown folk," said Cokie. "They got everything that money can buy, their bank accounts are fat, but they ain't happy. They ain't ever gone be happy. You know why? They soul broke. And money can't fix that, no sir.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Soul, Gone, Uptown

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.54, Penguin

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• She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

  Mark Helprin

  Taken, Winter, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

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• Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Heart, Years

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• Which is more messed up- that we have so much compared to everyone else, or that we don't think we're rich? That on any given day, we might flippantly call ourselves 'broke' or 'poor?' We are neither of those things. We are rich. Filthy rich.

  Francis Chan

  Thinking, Might, Rich

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.62, David C Cook

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• Finally Doug broke the stalemate and looked at Megan. "Thanks a lot," he said sarcastically. Then he yanked off his plastic gloves, tossed them at her feet, and stormed away. Finn let out a sigh as he gazed after his brother. "You know, my parents really should have stopped with me.

  Kate Brian

  Brother, Should Have, Feet

  Kate Brian (2008). “Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable. "Max?" "Yes?" "Will you remember me?" His heart broke into a thousand pieces. "Always.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Eye, Eerie

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Bonds of Justice”, p.163, Hachette UK

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