Top 100 Quotes About Broken Glass
#1. I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies.
Stephen Richards
#2. 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
#3. Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
Robert Frost
#4. People who make their living looking into crystal balls are destined to eat a lot of broken glass.
Larry R. Williams
#5. When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.
Megan Whalen Turner
#6. I'm packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.
Henry Rollins
#7. 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
#8. If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob".
Gyles Brandreth
#9. Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?
Pete Doherty
#10. 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
#11. Your half empty..
A broken glass,
I love you can sound so beautiful
Until you stop to listen
That terrible background noise,
you have no idea how bad I want to hold you
But I'm afraid I'll cut my hand.
Brittany Williams
#12. Why do you hold a razor in one hand?
So men remember that I am sharp as any edge.
And why do you hold broken glass in the other?
So men remember that I am always watching.
Susan Dennard
#13. Their homeopathic letters,
Envelopes full of carefully broken glass
To lodge behind your eyes so you would see
Ted Hughes
#14. And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.
David O. Russell
#15. Broken glass. At the moment, we were barefoot and dancing over a sea of it. But as true as that was, Mickey knew I would dance with him forever if I could, bloody feet and all.
Ka Hancock
#16. Yes.' He drank it all down and then casually threw the glass at the fireplace. I stared at the fragments. 'You don't mind, do you?' He gestured to the broken glass with a sarcastic smile. 'I surely hope you don't, because there's nothing much you can do about it if you do mind.
Anne Rice
#17. Germans will crawl bollock-naked over broken glass to get low fares.
Michael O'Leary
#18. I sang from my belly, from my intricate system of female parts, and from those sacs inside me that wouldn't show up on an ultrasound but held all the rocks and stones and broken glass of want and need I'd managed to collect in seventeen years.
Nina Malkin
#20. I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
Burl Ives
#21. Come on," he says. "And try to avoid the broken glass. Can't have you going to the nurse and meeting some other guy.
Jill Hathaway
#22. 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
#23. At17, balanced on that precarious walkway between adolescence and adulthood, the world is a crazy obstacle course paved one day with broken glass, the next with apple blossom.
Joanne Harris
#24. 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
#25. Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.
Terry Pratchett
#26. She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.
Mina Loy
#27. I felt a clot in my throat, something that wouldn't let language come ... And there is also a dream I have over and over again, of opening up my mouth and finding my tongue studded with broken glass, so every word is a wound.
Lauren Slater
#28. 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
#29. I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.
Jon Bon Jovi
#30. Lee stood in front of the class the first day and said, "Anybody who makes fun of romance fiction is making fun of Jane Austen, and anybody who makes fun of Jane Austen answers to me." Why yes, I would walk across broken glass for that man. Why do you ask?
Jennifer Crusie
#31. 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
#32. That's what was in my head in the attic when I took broken glass from my tender kit and began to cut myself into tiny pieces.
Kathleen Glasgow
#33. The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.
Cassandra Clare
#34. 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
#35. The butterflies were still alive in the Mason jar. August turned to her and said, "We gon' make it through, Hattie." She snatched the jar from the table and hurled it at the wall behind August. The two of them watched the butterflies, stunned and struggling in the broken glass.O
Ayana Mathis
#36. The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass ... all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness.
Francis De Sales
#37. Not only did Peeves break easily through the giant bell jar, showering an entire corridor with broken glass, he also escaped the trap armed with several cutlasses, crossbows, a blunderbuss and a miniature cannon.
J.K. Rowling
#38. Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.
Charles Portis
#39. Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Bernard Cornwell
#40. An old, round clock, its one remaining hand ornate and frozen under the broken glass at a quarter past two. The
Kyra Wheatley
#41. She suddenly felt herself gasping for air, as if she'd momentarily forgotten how to breathe. She rocked back in her chair and nearly fell over, then slumped against the green-covered table. The bowl fell from her fingers, shattering at her feet, broken glass scattering everywhere.
Joe DeRouen
#42. A very civilized thing, glass - almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.
John Derbyshire
#43. 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
#45. And perhaps, because I liked you. His laughter was bitter, like broken glass.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#46. Rahul Dravid is a player who would walk on broken glass if his team asks him to
Navjot Singh Sidhu
#47. I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.
Angela Carter
#48. As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
Eddie Condon
#50. And I am ashamed to write here that I felt more alive than ever, even though my heart was broken glass in my chest.
Nick Drake
#51. You trip over a word while carrying
a tray of vocabulary out to the pool
only to discover that broken glass
is a good topic.
Billy Collins
#52. The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#53. There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand ... with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.
Albert Camus
#54. I found an empty chair
and sat on it
to find myself even emptier.
I found a broken glass
and looked at it
to see my dissolved face
a little prettier
I found a steep doorway
and entered
in order to close my exit.
From the poem 'Blue Stanzas
Munia Khan
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. I am a Shotet. I am sharp as broken glass, and just as fragile. I tell lies better than I tell truths. I see all of the galaxy and never catch a glimpse of it.
Veronica Roth
#58. I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass.
Christopher Columbus
#59. 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
#60. A broken heart is not a broken glass
ABC
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Fred would walk across broken glass for Siren.
C.S. Woolley
#64. What is the savior of the world doing among these wire fences, in all this broken glass?
Janet McAdams
#65. More than anything." Rob persisted. "You'd crawl on your belly over broken glass for her. Easy.
L.J.Smith
#66. Listen to the sea ... it sounds like a coffin being dragged over broken glass.
Caroline B. Cooney
#67. 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
#69. Would the hydrogen catch fire? Alek grasped the edge of the window, hardly feeling the broken glass against his palms.
"Deryn" he sobbed. Anything but this.
Scott Westerfeld
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.
Arthur Helps
#73. Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It's the body's physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind's way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.
Ally Carter
#74. 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
#75. The Fairy looked at the broken glass around her feet. Her shattered cage. And the one who'd put her in it was far, far away. But, no, she had caged herself.
Cornelia Funke
#76. I just sit there. The morning started out like crystal, but the day has turned to broken glass.
Sharon M. Draper
#77. First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.
Scott Meyers
#78. Jewish shops that were still in operation in Molching. Inside, a small man was stuttering about, crushing the broken glass beneath his feet as he cleaned up.
Markus Zusak
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. He was bright as broken glass and sharp enough to cut himself.
George R R Martin
#83. The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.
Jasper Fforde
#84. 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
#85. Room Full Of Mirrors, that's more of a mental disarrangement. This says something about broken glass used to be all in my brain.
Jimi Hendrix
#86. We are all made of broken glass. The school grinds along on grief and anger.
Justine Larbalestier
#87. Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.
Harry Crews
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.
Mark Nepo
#91. Pardon? Why, sir, I beg your pardon, for if that was pardon, then fists are love and nooses are kisses. You speak of duty? Duty is the rope that strangles me. Piety is a bed of broken glass. And family is the company of hateful demons.
Rachel Caine
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Oh, Mr. Trout," nice Milo went on, there in Trout's suite, "teach us to sing and dance and laugh and cry. We've tried to survive so long on money and sex and envy and real estate and football and basketball and automobiles and television and alcohol - on sawdust and broken glass!
Anonymous
#95. An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.
Terry Pratchett
#96. Some voices get hard and tight with age, some rough like broken glass.
Shannon Hale
#97. A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.
Vera Nazarian
#98. It was so surreal. We're on the road and a split second-BAM-we jump a median-BAM-we jump a curb.
And then there was this house.
And these sounds.
Splintered glass.
Broken bones.
Severed veins.
And that's all I know.
The decisions that we make.
Jason Myers
#99. After expressing his appreciation that his glass is half full rather than being completely empty, he will go on to express his delight in even having a glass: It could, after all, have been broken or stolen.
William B. Irvine
#100. I name you Elentiya." She kissed the assassin's brow. "I give you this name to use with honour, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, 'Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.
Sarah J. Maas
