First place Quote by Lisa Burstein

“Maybe it was all right to let things be broken for awhile.”

— Elana K. Arnold

“We are all broken in one way or another. It's how we put those pieces back together that matters".”

— Maggi Myers

“Maybe I was still broken and would always be-but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, lining up one jagged edge at…

— Alexandra Bracken

“There are a lot of things that manage to get broken in a life, most of them never to be put back together again.”

— Don Kurtz

“I was all put back together, but had never felt more torn apart.”

— P.T. Michelle

“We were both broken, trying to become unbroken. Maybe we just needed a little help. Not to fix each other, but to help us…

— Chelsea M. Cameron

“Why keep putting yourself back together if you’re just going to keep breaking apart?”

— R.L. Griffin

“Broken things can be made whole again. Perhaps not as they were before, but maybe stronger this time.”

— Carrie Ryan

“I guess we’re both a little broken,” he said after a while. I pulled away then and attempted a small smile. “Everybody’s broken. We…

— Christine Zolendz

“We are all a little broken, looking for something whole to hang on to. But sometimes, what seems whole is even more broken than…

— J.A. ANUM

“Sometimes your life falls apart just enough to allow you to put it back together again in a whole new way.”

— Cris Hammond

“In that moment, I knew whatever had been broken over the years was finally put back together again. I was whole.”

— Harper Sloan