Breaking Quotes
1374 quotes by 1116 authors
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It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking…
— Philip K. Dick
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Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I’d fallen for a girl…
— Rick Riordan
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He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the…
— Cormac McCarthy
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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking…
— Harper Lee
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They would always be a family, but if she'd learned anything in the past few weeks it was that a family wasn't a static thing.…
— Kristin Hannah
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Kissing girls is easy, like breaking windows.
— Joey Comeau
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Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it.…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I'm putting up a great front, then because I feel like I'm breaking apart inside.
— Christine Feehan
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it it strange, suddenly having a memory come back out of nowhere. you think you're going crazy; you wonder where this recollection has been hiding…
— Jodi Picoult
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Right then, it didn't matter what his reasons were. All I knew that I was sick of him breaking my heart.
— Amanda Hocking
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I was in his hands, he called me by the thunder at my ear. I was in his hands: I was being changed; all that…
— James A. Baldwin
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Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts…
— Charles Simic
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound.
— Judy Blundell
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Safety is relative. You can be so close to shore that you can practically feel it under your feet, when you suddenly find yourself breaking…
— Jodi Picoult
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You know," Kirk said finally, breaking the silence. "I see it. He is pretty hot.
— Cassandra Clare
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It won't be the same for me," I whispered, half to myself. "You won't let me be like that. We'll live in Antarctica." Edward snorted,…
— Stephenie Meyer
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We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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My heart is breaking," she says. "I want to be strong for you right now but the thought of you leaving is killing me inside.
— Pittacus Lore
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We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same…
— Michael Chabon
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