Shards Quotes

52 Shards quotes by 46 unique authors

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing… — Geraldine Brooks
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura… — William S. Burroughs
All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been mainlined into my… — R. U. Sirius
Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held… — Thomas Harris
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the… — Simon Mawer
Hope is a merciless tormentor. It's the sound of trickling water to parched lips. The prospect of love to the unlovable. A miracle cure to… — Robert Liparulo
Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it. — Janet Morris
As soon as we put something into words, we devalue it in a strange way. We think we have plunged into the depths of the… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into… — Patricia Hampl
I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may… — Leonard Nimoy
Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability… — Jerry Saltz
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying… — James Wolcott
To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun… — Ken Follett
Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in… — Brian Morton
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and… — Salman Rushdie
The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've… — David James Duncan
She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way… — Anne Lamott
I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into… — Dennis Lehane
...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a… — Deb Caletti
The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and… — Suzanne Collins
And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers… — Philip Roth
Then I think of the dark, and the lights, and the roaring, and Juliet, and before I can think of anything else, I fight the… — Lauren Oliver

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