Emotional-state Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“She said I wasn’t broken at all.”

— Tijan

“I'm not broken,' he repeated. 'Although at the moment . . . ' This was what came of violating the sentimentality quota. Everything he…

— Courtney Milan

“He was treating me like something breakable, which is different from how you treat something you yourself have broken.”

— Joshilyn Jackson

“He was a sweet guy. Broken, clearly, but we all are, when you get right down to it.”

— Chris O'Guinn

“I like that you're emotionally broken," she said cheerfully. "It keeps the playing field level." "I'm not broken. I'm quirky." "Is that what we're…

— Susan Mallery

“Why did she feel like she was still broken?”

— Allison Brennan

“He felt like she was breaking him.”

— Cynthia Eden

“I like that you’re emotionally broken,” she said cheerfully. “It keeps the playing field level.” “I’m not broken. I’m quirky.” “Is that what we’re…

— Susan Mallery

“He had never seemed breakable before, but in that moment, he was entirely fragile, and there was something beautiful in his sadness; something raw.”

— Peter Monn

“not listen to the mad ramblings of a broken man. He means none of what he says and only half of what he doesn’t.…

— Marie Hall

“She’d broken him open and taken his emotional virginity.”

— Sylvain Reynard

“He leaned fully against me and I gasped. “Sometimes it’s over a spoiled little girl, not a woman at all.”

— Karen Marie Moning