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• Hope is fragile and needs to be tended and renewed.

  Patrick Shade

  Needs

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• Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart, Delirium, Fragile Things

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again.

  Mary Balogh

  Like Being Alone, Expression, Solitude

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.57, Delacorte Press

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• is this fragile love/ a way/ to say/ goodbye

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Goodbye, Saying Goodbye, Way

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.251, Scholastic Inc.

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• If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world?

  Franny Billingsley

  Believe, Love You, World

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.361, A&C Black

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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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• Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

  Marquis de Sade

  Devil, Conviction, Insufficiency

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• A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

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• We're just a fragile team right now. It seems like when we have a little bit of adversity, when something goes wrong, you can feel it on the bench, it kind of sinks. Unless we get a goal or something really positive happens, it's tough. I think falling out of the playoff race takes the wind out of your sails for sure.

  Wes Walz

  Team, Fall, Adversity

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• Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.

  Gao Xingjian

  Struggle, Life Is, Natural

  "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1990.

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• Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

  Lauren Oliver

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Wind

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• First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld.

  John Crowley

  Sweat, Long, Pirate

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• A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.

  Margaret Haddix

  Mother, Hurt, Fear

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2008). “Double Identity”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

  Billy Collins

  Light, Offering, Bird

  Billy Collins (2012). “Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r

  John Green

  Believe, Writing, Fire

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• I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.

  Donald Trump

  World, Life Is, Life Is Fragile

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.

  Margaret Atwood

  Democracy, Fabric, Citizens

  "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

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• Reality is a fragile thing.

  Cornelia Funke

  Reality, Fragile Things

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• Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

  Glenn Close

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts... that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.

  Eric Taylor

  Pain, Fall, Taken

  "Fictional character: Eric Taylor". "Friday Night Lights" (Pilot), www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.

  Martha Ronk

  Littles, Language, Plant

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.

  Martha Ronk

  Mean, Garden, Language

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think that the creative process, especially in the beginning of making an album, I'm feeling very fragile, so to speak, because you are trying out so many different ideas, and if you are listening to it from the outside, it would sound horrible!

  Trentemøller

  Thinking, Ideas, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only way we're going to survive. And now it's like we're undoing these very fragile institutions that were built after the First and Second World Wars that were about nations working on a kind of global diplomacy for our mutual benefit. And we're undoing them at such rapid-fire pace.

  Zoe Leonard

  War, Mutual Benefit, Fire

  Interview with Molly Prentiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Spring, Heaven, Soul

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