fragile

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
2359afd	People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.	effort fragile life regrets sincerity	Haruki Murakami
61c0f35	A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.	fragile librarian protection	Umberto Eco
cf890f4	Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.	changed doll fair fragile fragility gone made obstacles porcelain she someone steel turned-into used-to-be wants	V.C. Andrews
00b158e	Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.	fragile fragility heavy pain weakness	George Saunders
e35069a	She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he'd be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He'd lie there for a few minutes. He'd be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He'd brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park. But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for.	fragile lessons lies subdue	Francine Pascal
b4082fe	"What else can you tell me?" Dad stares at me. "What have you learned while you were awake?" I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn't determine whether you get it or not, that "no" might not be enough, that life isn't fair, that my parents can't save me, that maybe no one can. "Nothing much," I mutter."	art chaos colonel-martin dad fragile hard life mess nothing sad save shades-of-earth time unfair	Beth Revis
55a8fec	Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.	bulbs electric fragile lives sequestered	Michel Faber
8fe8366	Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge. A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older. This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.	childhood fragile memories nostalgia preserved quote quotes	Juliet Marillier
87b0b53	There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.	dear fragile happy-endings jonathan-rebeck joys-of-the-dead laura-durand living michael-morgan nothing-ends righteous self-centered unworthy worthy	Peter S. Beagle
47efd54	Don't clap too loudly--it's a very old world.	fragile old wolrd	Tom Stoppard

2359afd

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.

effort fragile life regrets sincerity

Haruki Murakami

61c0f35

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

fragile librarian protection

Umberto Eco

cf890f4

Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would always get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way.

changed doll fair fragile fragility gone made obstacles porcelain she someone steel turned-into used-to-be wants

V.C. Andrews

00b158e

Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.

fragile fragility heavy pain weakness

George Saunders

e35069a

She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he'd be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He'd lie there for a few minutes. He'd be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He'd brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park. But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for.

fragile lessons lies subdue

Francine Pascal

b4082fe

"What else can you tell me?" Dad stares at me. "What have you learned while you were awake?" I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn't determine whether you get it or not, that "no" might not be enough, that life isn't fair, that my parents can't save me, that maybe no one can. "Nothing much," I mutter."

art chaos colonel-martin dad fragile hard life mess nothing sad save shades-of-earth time unfair

Beth Revis

55a8fec

Not for the first time, Peter thought about how much of our lives we spend sequestered inside small patches of electric brightness, blind to everything beyond the reach of those fragile bulbs.

bulbs electric fragile lives sequestered

Michel Faber

8fe8366

Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge. A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older. This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.

childhood fragile memories nostalgia preserved quote quotes

Juliet Marillier

87b0b53

There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.

dear fragile happy-endings jonathan-rebeck joys-of-the-dead laura-durand living michael-morgan nothing-ends righteous self-centered unworthy worthy

Peter S. Beagle

47efd54

Don't clap too loudly--it's a very old world.

fragile old wolrd

Tom Stoppard