Broken Quotes
One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.
A friend is someone who walks into a room when everyone else is walking out.
There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
Even when you’d lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.
Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.
I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.
Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.
I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.
You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.
The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.
If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.
What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.
But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?
It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.
But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.
They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.
We scarified a mosquito. I bet that's what did it. It was probably a virgin too.
I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.
Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.
Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?
I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that’s what you’d call a silver lining.
You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.
The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.
Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?
Absolution exists, call it Christian or whatever. It’s far older than any creed, and one of our blessings.
All I can tell you is that at the end, there's nothing left but love.
Long after you have reached the end of your natural span, part of you will dwell within me . . . as I shall be in you to the last of your days and even after.
Part of me shall dwell in my daughter to call upon in times of need of course.
There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.
If anyone was going to get themselves murdered to guarantee they would remain the center of attention, it would be him.
That’s the problem with you young people, always thinking everything comes with a price. An act of kindness is just that, nothing more.
I desperately want to talk to her now. I want to ask her who it was who so deftly crafted and shaped the legend that was our love.
It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.
So sad is this that nigh to all are ignorant to the pain and death caused by the hands of evil.
My handling of the situation with Jake proved that I was the same girl from eight years ago. I'd just gained a stone and lost my love for Shayne Ward.
Everything you love has been stolen from you, Regan. Come with me and we’ll steal it all back… together, we’ll make you whole again.” -KieronHanti
Sarie is such a comely girl, " he said to them, "even the evil spirits will be heartbroken to see her hurt."- King Chuka
Father, you are asking me to sacrifice the only girl I love so you can openly have the woman you love.
Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.
True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.