Fragile Quotes - Page 30

• His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Father, Self

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.56, Anchor

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• Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.

  Janet Fitch

  Stronger, Pieces, Emeralds

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful, tender, lost, sparkling ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. It's up to you.

  Joan Baez

  Morning, Jewels, Rainbow

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• We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Believe, Ambition

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• It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Catching Fire, Berries

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.

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• Life goes on with fragile normalcy.

  Sara Gruen

  Elephants, Normalcy, Goes On

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.264, Hachette UK

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• Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

  Melissa Marr

  Crush, Feelings, Shells

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