Being-gentle Quote by C. JoyBell C

“I'm not broken. I'm shattered. I'm a million tiny pieces that would take longer than forever to piece back together.”

— Sandi Lynn

“Everything is fragile; everything is breaking.”

— Wendy Corsi Staub

“Weak things are so very easy to break.”

— Morgan Rhodes

“You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces”

— Joe Ambercrombie

“Sometimes you don't understand how broken you are until you put all the pieces together, cutting your fingers on them, realizing that enough shards…

— Laura Tims

“I feel brittle, like I’m made of glass and all of my cracks are beginning to show.”

— Amy A. Bartol

“I guess what I’m really trying to say is that you used to shatter easily. But now you’ve become less brittle.”

— Sherry Thomas

“Breaking things heals a great many hurts. This is why children do it so often.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Once we allow our brokenness to become our norm it no longer appears broken, which is the most broken kind of brokenness.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some broken things stay broken”

— Holly Black

“How can I be made so broken?”

— J Brian Long

“Be like water; soft as it is, it breaks through rocks and impenetrable surfaces.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo