I'm Like Broken Glass Quotes

#1. Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

D. Love

#2. Picking up the pieces of a broken relationship is like gathering up shards of glass with bear hands and eyes closed.

Michael Faudet

#3. The trouble with rules, though, is that you'll always be tempted to break one- for the right reasons, due to unavoidable circumstances, because it feels as if there's no other choice. And once you break one, the rest seem like so much broken glass. The damage is already done.

Stacey Kade

#4. Even though on the outside we glittered like gold, inside we were almost as black as coal. Sometimes the glitter people saw was only the shattered pieces reflecting among the broken glass.

Tracy Krimmer

#5. I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that is a contradiction, it is a contradiction that ethics has to embrace, or else it becomes like glass: hard, clear, but fatally inflexible.

Julian Baggini

#6. Our sweet illusions are half of them conscious illusions, like effects of colour that we know to be made up of tinsel, broken glass and rags.

George Eliot

#7. What do I do now?
I didn't think my heart could break any more than it already has.
The pieces still inside of me feel like broken glass.
Every time I take a breath, they stab into me.
It never ends ...

H.M. Ward

#8. Some stories aren't meant to be told. The more they get told, the more they change from what they once were, worn down and smooth like pieces of sea glass too beautiful to have ever been broken bottles.

Caren Gussoff

#9. It was like stepping barefoot on a sharp bit of broken glass. She pulled the glass out and ran on, but the pain remained.

Kristin Hannah

#10. Broadhampton sat like a broken egg at the bottom of a glass bowl.

Maddie Grigg

#11. Listen to the sea ... it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass.

Caroline B. Cooney

#12. Beautiful like all the Shadowhunters were beautiful, like moonlight shearing off the edges of broken glass: lovely and deadly. Beautiful things, cruel things, cruel in that way that only people who absolutely believed in the rightness of their cause could be cruel.

Cassandra Clare

#13. I don't know how many busted bones he had, but he felt like a bag full of broken glass when Bren and I went to move him.

Kit Rocha

#14. Can't believe the school year is almost over, Beth said, in that voice that sounded like a teenage girl who had a throat full of broken glass and lug nuts.

Rachel Hawkins

#15. The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#16. The journey comes with baggage, yes. And heartbreak. But there are also many gifts. In a sense, we're all cobblers. We're all a bit like Brother Joseph, piecing together our faith, one shard of broken glass at a time.

Rachel Held Evans

#17. I just sit there. The morning started out like crystal, but the day has turned to broken glass.

Sharon M. Draper

#18. Relationship are like glasses, once it's broken it never be like before, as broken glass remain with the broken piece stains ever ...

Debolina Bhawal

#19. Dana's window? More like her snow globe, Janice thought. She pictured Dana standing in a tiny glass-enclosed world, snow gently falling around her. Her world could be shaken but never broken. She was far too insulated.

Lynn Steward

#20. I closed my eyes and willed my breath to slow, my conscious mind to fold itself inward. I could feel heat pulsing from my daughter's head, her frantic thoughts whirling like broken glass. I loosened my hold on my body and dropped into that whirlpool.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#21. If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight.

Todd Strasser

#22. Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Publilius Syrus

#23. As soon as it's out of my mouth, I cringe, realizing that it's probably pretty crappy to complain about your parents to someone who doesn't have any. It's like bitching that your shoes are too tight to someone who's walking across broken glass barefoot.

Katja Millay

#24. Amory had loved himself in Eleanor, so now what he hated was only a mirror. Their poses were strewn about the pale dawn like broken glass.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#25. I could barely breathe as I fled down the steps, like something was stuck in my throat. I couldn't tell what flavor it was; it tasted salty like tears, but it was sharp as broken glass.

Laura Bickle

#26. Relationships are like broken glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than hurt yourself trying to put the pieces back together

Alex Haditaghi

#27. Some voices get hard and tight with age, some rough like broken glass.

Shannon Hale

#28. Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

Terry Pratchett

#29. We are all broken in some way. But it's all the shattered pieces that give us depth. Like stained glass, it's how the pieces and colors fit together that truly makes us beautiful.

Adriana Law

#30. His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

Pete Townshend

#31. Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it's morally wrong.

Ken Bruen

#32. Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

Pete Doherty

#33. He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.

Cassandra Clare

#34. ...you have to just go on. It's sort of like a bird flying into a plate glass window. And then you just sort of pick yourself up, shake yourself off, and check for anything broken, and go back to work.

Sally Mann

#35. In that moment her heart fell out of her chest. Like the glass filled vase he had brought to her, it dropped. It was shattered into a million small pieces.

J.B. McGee

#36. How is he so rich and hot and normal?"
I shake my head, "He's rich and hot, but he's not normal. I see a sickness in his eyes. They're broken like mine. Like a mirror with cracks in it but none of the glass has fallen out of the frame.

Tara Brown

#37. It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody - told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#38. He was like a shattered stained-glass window: something beautiful that's broken; a million colours fallen on the ground where no light can get through.

Glenda Millard

#39. I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.

Cory Monteith

#40. You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew ...

Francesca Lia Block

#41. Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth."
"You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around ... him. It makes total sense.

Rick Riordan

#42. She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.

Mina Loy

#43. They made me so smooth like porcelain. Inside I was broken glass. Every fragment was piercing me sharp. At every breath, I felt I was imploding.

Sonia Rao

#44. At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken glass they could court light ... still I try to place these pieces back together, to set them firm, to make murdered girls live again.

Alice Sebold

#45. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.

Charlotte Eriksson

#46. Sometimes it is like juggling with broken glass because both things are very sensitive and have to be handled with care. I can't let the career be neglected and I can't let my family and children be neglected either.

Kelly Price

#47. And she thinks perhaps that is what love is: letting someone else see that part of you that shatters like glass...They will grow old together, broken together, and as long as they both don't completely shatter at the same time, they might find a way to pick each other off the ground.

Thomas Christopher Greene

#48. 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

#49. Silent sobbing. No one sees.
Weeping like the willow trees.
Feel my heart about to pop.
Need to make the aching stop.
See moon's shimmer softly pass.
On the shards of broken glass.

Madeleine Kuderick

#50. As Samantha wrapped the ornament in paper, and placed it in a bag, Mrs. Ryan said, "Hearts are like that spun glass, beautiful and fragile, and easily broken." With a Mona Lisa smile, she turned and left the store.

Tamara Hoffa

#51. And perhaps, because I liked you. His laughter was bitter, like broken glass.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#52. Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Charles Kingsley

#53. As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?

Eddie Condon