No one has yet tested the pencil To see how many words it…

“Night is the sleep of seven wax moths Dawn is the singing of five mermaids Noon is the scratching of three field mice Dusk…

— Xi Chuan

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil,

— William Faulkner

“She writes only in pencil, as if the words might need to be revoked--borrowed words, for the most part, plucked out of other mouths...”

— Dawn Tripp

Make-up is such a huge fragment of my career and image.

— Shakti Mohan

“What fragment of truth will be mine?”

— Lia Hills

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

— Douglas Coupland

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

— Tobias Wolff

Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of…

— W. S. Merwin

Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas…

— Thomas Bernhard

“A fragment for my friend-- If your soul left this earth I would follow and find you Silent, my starship suspended in night”

— Emily St. John Mandel

No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them.…

— Lucretius

A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece

— Lyn Hejinian

“It's the fragment of your past that explains why you have lived your life the way you have done and made the mistakes that…

— Rosie Thomas

Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself.

— Hakuun Yasutani

“Even when he was gone, some fragment of his spirit lingered behind.”

— Stephanie Perkins