Quote by Stephen Chbosky

“She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.”

— Brian Freeman

“Sometimes everything breaks up so something new can break through.”

— Lynn A. Robinson

“I felt sucker-punched. It wasn't God's fault Patrick had been treated worse than dirt, as I'd let myself believe. It was mine.”

— Lauren Myracle

“...and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“...it was like being in the start of an earthquake. Before that, whatever else happened, however bad things had been, you were at least…

— Roland Merullo

“Everything we had built up came crashing down. In one split second, everything turned into nothing.”

— Haruki Murakami

“...and then you discover that you can break yourself in a way that can't be fixed...”

— Prabhakar Tripathi

“Some things need to be broken.”

— P.C. Hodgell

“Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.”

— Charles Frazier

“Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick very much, and everything embarrasses me. Just being…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

“Everything was broken, meaning everything could somehow be fixed.”

— Noelle Howey

“I am not ready to see what happens next. Because it’s possible that nothing will happen, and that might break me.”

— David Levithan