“Listen he says to the way I’ll never kiss you again. Whistle of a train breaking from the floorboards, music of wet cement, sweet Black and Mild through a vent, and this is not the end, but it is almost the end. The something still to be done. The pruning of shrubs. Do anything. Please.”— Michelle Dominique Burk, narrativemagazine.com
“If you feel like you’re falling apart, fall into my arms. I promise I will catch every little piece of you and I promise I will always love your brokenness.”— Anita Krizzan, lovelustquotes.tumblr.com
“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com
“I thought of the pieces of me I'd left behind, a piece here, a piece there, scattered like bread crumbs. How much of me was left?”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com
“But you are not and never have been an apology, a mistake or a thing to be forgotten. Remember that in the way you wear your skin every morning.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“You see, you may be damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“You tilt your head back. You breathe. When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain. And you teach your sons and daughters there are sharks in the water. But the only way to survive is to breathe deep and dive.”— Andrea Gibson, ohandreagibson.tumblr.com
“I’m still broken, I know, but I don’t let that define me anymore.”— passionatelypsycho, passionatelypsycho.tumblr.com
“And in the end, we were all just humans… Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, bookaddictiion.tumblr.com
“I was twelve. What did I know? How could I have imagined then how alone I would become.”— Dorianne Laux, amazon.com