Cracked Heart Quotes

#1. Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills out and onto anyone around us. We call it a cracked heart.

Brodi Ashton

#2. Still the most intense pleasure's but a splinter of ice on the gallons of lava that gush from my cracked heart.

Matthew Sharpe

#3. Words, Genevieve." He smiled with such sadness, my heart cracked. "They mean nothing next to your actions. It is what we do that defines who we are and where our devotion truly lies.

Juliette Cross

#4. A door in my heart cracked open an inch, and hope walked in.

Jenny B. Jones

#5. His knuckles brushed against her skin and lightning cracked through him, left him paralyzed, rooted to the earth. His heart should not be making that sound.

Leigh Bardugo

#6. Over a million? A million books?" Her heart leapt and danced, and she cracked a smile. "I'd die before I even got through half of that!"
"You like to read?"
She raised an eyebrow. "Don't you?

Sarah J. Maas

#7. Today I saw my inner planet: a cracked rib, air in the lungs, fatty liver and an open heart.

Jaime Garcia

#8. When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even particularly want. What I craved was the purchase, not the thing itself. Of course, a sense of not being deprived may fill an emotional void without ruinous consequences.

Siri Hustvedt

#9. I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

Eloisa James

#10. His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.

Jean Thompson

#11. From that cracked-open-heart place, a God-breathed strength will rise. Rise.

Lysa TerKeurst

#12. O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

William Shakespeare

#13. Some people change the world. And some people change the people who change the world, and that's you.

Kij Johnson

#14. More often than not, the demons of our nature love a recluse; nobody is more vulnerable to himself than the solitary. To imagine that one can simply withdraw, and somehow achieve peace, or wisdom, or detachment, is a mistake. It is also, in most cases, inappropriate, selfish, and even cowardly.

John Burnside

#15. Why do the gingerbread girls have to wear pink?" Penny asks.
"Why should the gingerbread girls feel like they shouldn't wear pink?" I say. "I like pink."
"Only because you've been conditioned to like it by Barbies and gendered Lego."
"Lay off, Penny. I've never played with Lego.

Rainbow Rowell

#16. When I was young, I used to tell my mum that she had to get me on the TV, but then modelling just sort of happened.

Alyssa Sutherland

#17. It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.

David Soul

#19. My doom is, I love thee still.
Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#20. There's a coward and a fool, and both of them are you, My heart is cracked and broken, but yours is frozen through.

Jay Bell

#21. Others do not have our magic. We have our magic. It is in us.

Melody Beattie

#22. Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody.

Linda Lael Miller

#23. Bent
like the branches of a tree
broken
like the pieces of my heart
cracked
like the seventeenth moon
shattered
like the glass in the window
the day we met

Kami Garcia

#24. Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

Immanuel Kant

#25. My heart cracked. Daemon never begged.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#26. Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in.

Rachelle Rea Cobb

#27. There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#28. Her heart may be cracked, but it is pure. She may be jaded, but she is hopeful. She may be broken, but she is strong. She may be here, but she will leave.

LeAnne Mechelle

#29. My heart cracked, splintered, shattered in my chest. And I knew without a doubt I would love Road until I died.

Pepper Winters

#30. Julia's heart nearly cracked under the weight of her realization that her love had not healed him.

Sylvain Reynard

#31. Love like an anvil had cracked my locked heart open and unleashed an excruciating flow of tenderness

Krista Bremer

#32. To know true love, even though it was impossible to keep, had finally cracked her heart open enough to let someone else in.

Andrea Hurst

#33. Once there was a girl named Riley, the story began. Her heart was a secret garden, its stone walls cracked and weathered. And it was hungry. p160

Scott Westerfeld

#34. The brittle bones beneath my chest cracked, piercing my heart. It was you who breathed new life into my lungs and it was you who would later syphon the life you had given so as to feed your selfish desires

Sonya Watson