“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”— Rick Riordan, amazon.com
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“Broken yet stronger, hurt but wiser, a few cracks in her foundation and still, she remained beautiful.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“I am the kind of broken that only comes when so many pieces are shattered off the whole that it forgets it ever painted a picture at all.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com
“'Augustus Waters,' I said, looking up at him, thinking that you cannot kiss anyone in the Anne Frank House, and thinking that Anne Frank, after all, kissed someone in the Anne Frank House, and that she would probably like nothing more than for her home to have become a place where the young and irre…”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.”— Tullian Tchividjian, amazon.com
“My innocence is not lost—it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life.”— Jewel, amazon.com
“You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.”— Holly Black, amazon.com
“We are all trying to get over the person who broke our hearts. We are all far from perfect.”— Alex Rosa, amazon.com
“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.”— R.M Drake, rmdrk.bigcartel.com
“I don't trust easily, and I don't give second chances. I'm messy. I'm emotional. I love hard and get upset about little things. I take everything personally. I want to fix everyone, even if they're not broken.”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“I've come to terms with the fact that I'm broken. Not in a sad way, just in an it-is-what-it-is kind of way. Life happened and I've adjusted accordingly. We're all a little bit shattered. Pain and heartache comes our way and with time we develop patterns that we think will protect us... But that onl…”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“Every day we ignore how completely broken this world is and we tell ourselves it’s all going to be okay, you’re gonna be okay. But it’s not okay. And once you know that, there’s no going back.”— Haley James Scott, amazon.com
“I thought if I could touch this place or feel it this brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here its like I'm someone else, I thought that maybe I could find myself if I could just come in I swear I'll leave. Won't take nothing but a memory from the house that built me.”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to li…”— Anne Lamott, amazon.com
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your…”— Douglas Coupland, amazon.com
“I was twelve. What did I know? How could I have imagined then how alone I would become.”— Dorianne Laux, amazon.com