Assembling Quote by Anne Lamott

“She never moved in pieces like a mosaic She moved whole like a sculpture But it was next to impossible With her limited means…

— Witter Bynner

What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind…

— Dean Koontz

Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to…

— Kristin Cashore

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this. And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

— Mitch Albom

Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.

— John Green

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything…

— Jane Austen

It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled…

— D. H. Lawrence

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

— Nicole Krauss

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which…

— Anonymous

Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.

— Janet Fitch

“Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too…

— Vicki Pettersson