Top 100 Quotes About Cracks
#1. Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.
Jon Ronson
#2. Love enters later in life through the cracks left by the first heartbreak.
D. Biswas
#3. Something in me that was broken, cracked - becomes whole. The cracks, if I write them with utter honesty, are where "the light gets in." The present meets the past, and healing begins.
Pat Schneider
#4. I'm always excited to see my good buddy Richelle Mead. She cracks me up. I never get to see Veronica Roth enough, either.
Margaret Stohl
#5. Fortune draws her breath through cracks that make coarse the route on which we march to success
Agona Apell
#6. I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up. First of all, it's not that big, so I'm pretty sure a guy came up with that name.
Carol Leifer
#7. Why was it in hindsight you could see the cracks in a foundation you'd have otherwise thought was solid and smooth?
R.J. Lewis
#9. When your heart is broken, when your heart has cracks in it, it lets the light in.
Ellen DeGeneres
#10. I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.
Janet Frame
#11. A row of daffodils and red tulips nestled against the walkway beneath my feet. Stray weeds peeked up through the cracks in the concrete, a reminder that that nature had the final say. No matter how much mankind bulldozed or built, all was vulnerable to Mother Nature's whims.
Pamela Crane
#12. Anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.
Marianne Williamson
#13. The poor thing had cowered away from the sides of the pan, blackened on top, and developed drying cracks. It was inedible, better suited to the construction supply trade than to a dinner plate. A few dozen more of these and some mortar and she'd have that wall she wanted around her terrace.
J.R. Ward
#14. My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#15. I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys.
Marvin Gaye
#16. His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.
In seventeen years no one has said my name like that
Tahereh Mafi
#17. Hey, I've been alive for a very, very long time. Boring," she sang out. "Gotta do something for kicks, and a good apocalypse every now and then fills the cracks. It's like the Super Bowl for us gods ... but without the beer and everyone could die. Fun, right?
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#18. I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.
Kid Rock
#19. Trauma cracks us open (or for some of us, cuts us open) so the Holy Spirit can get in. So we can "right" ourselves.
Carolyn Weber
#20. I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.
Sally Kellerman
#21. Jack felt arousal spiking through him, clouding his mind with the wanting, wanting this man, all of him, black and tarry, rotted with disuse, glorious and fractured and spilling out of the cracks.
Jane Seville
#22. I just hugged him and didn't say anything. There wasn't anything to say. Sometimes there just aren't enough words to fill the cracks in your heart.
Robin Benway
#23. I'm constantly recording and playing down in the basement, and my voice is starting to sound really good. There's cracks and scratches in my voice that have been there since I was 19. It hasn't changed that much.
Paul Westerberg
#25. The exchange of money for my willing participation was served on a silver platter, requiring nothing more than the abandonment of my principles and the departure of virtue, which fell in between the cracks of insignificance, given in trade for the simple comforts I once knew. - from "Plight" 2015
Don Swann II
#26. Trees can grow from tiny cracks in stony cliffs, Kate. This may be a very small crack indeed - but it's a beginning.
Mary Jo Putney
#27. I look at you and my heart pounds, when for years, I don't think it beat at all. You fill the cracks and crevices, take away the emptiness. And when you're not by my side, the loss is unimaginable.
Kelly Moran
#28. My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.
Sonya Hartnett
#29. Serve God by doing common actions in a heavenly spirit, and then, if your daily calling only leaves you cracks and crevices of time, fill them up with holy service.
Charles Spurgeon
#30. There are so many ways to exit towards the Light, but with my luck, I'd be the one electrocuted by Diwali lights. Or the one who cracks her head falling off a footstool. I'd still be a jester, leaving the audience with a stitch in their sides.
Amruta Patil
#31. Cracks Down On Subway Acrobats
Anonymous
#32. What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.
Brady Anderson
#33. Ingenuousness is skewed by the cracks in the mirrors of the eye caused by the blunders of the insincere
T-anne Constable
#34. Yes, liquor is the thin white coat of paint you wash over the cracks in your foundation. Makes any rotten house livable for a few hours. Sometimes days.
Toby Barlow
#35. According to your sources
if you strike life with the radical
when it cracks
the inside's going to glow
with the translucence of red wine.
Below us people in dark coats stream home,
faces unavailable for comment.
Lori Lamothe
#36. The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins
Anne Lamott
#37. I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.
Gene Ween
#39. Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.
Pico Iyer
#40. A bag of bones can slip through small cracks in a crowd effortlessly.
Kris Kidd
#41. But if we may perish by cracks in things that we don't know -
Henry James
#42. [Al-Qaeda's supporters] are aware of the cracks in the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their own hands
Osama Bin Laden
#43. As darkness descended, fear continued hammering on the cracks of her rational mind. Even the critters had decided to ratchet up the volume. Great. A creepy nature soundtrack for my own personal nightmare. How about some Tomb Raider music, people!
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#44. You say into my cracks and I saw into yours.
John Green
#45. The ladies' fans opened with cracks like pistol shots, and were held up to block the stranger from view.
Frances Hardinge
#46. I wanted to write with emotional honesty and tell a story people could connect with. And I wanted people to know how the foster system in America fails children; and how, at 18, they fall through the cracks. Then we can all work together and give support.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#47. The cracks in your heart are there so the light can shine through.
Elizabeth Noble
#48. The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
Judith Guest
#49. When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.
Diana Vreeland
#50. She smashes her knuckles into winter
As autumn's wind fades into black
She is the saint of all the sinners,
the one whose fallen through the cracks ...
(iViva la Gloria!)
Green Day
#51. Oak ... lasts for an unlimited period when buried in underground structures ... when exposed to moisture ... it cannot take in liquid on account of its compactness, but, withdrawing from the moisture, it resists it and warps, thus making cracks.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#52. It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.
Gene Simmons
#53. Not many players get three cracks of the cherry.
Adrian Chiles
#54. We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square.
Erin Lawless
#55. Do what boxers do, sway with the punches. Don't resist. If any of what happens at work gets to you, just let it. You won't be able to shut it out in the long term anyway. Take it bit by bit, release it like a dam, don't let it collect until the wall develops cracks.
Jo Nesbo
#56. But the truth of the matter is that we've all got cracks in our spirits, and we have to remember they're only there because we need them ... Otherwise, how could God's grace filter in deep enough to give us the joy and peace we're all searching for in this world? It couldn't, plan and simple.
Delia Parr
#57. You are incredibly wise. (Kat)
Only when it comes to other people. It's easy to see how to fix their lives. It's much harder to see the cracks in your own house. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.
Melinda Gates
#59. Careful there, Sera. When you're upset, your wall cracks. I'm getting a whiff of your magic." He inhaled long and deep. "Mmm. Delicious." He shot her a roguish smile. Which she ignored. Or pretended to, anyway.
Ella Summers
#60. It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.
Rich Mullins
#62. But the cracks were splitting, finding power, thickening into chasms.
Anthony Doerr
#63. Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.
Walter Kirn
#64. She'll hurt me. I know this. I can see it, feel it coming. She's got so much pain, so many cracks and shards and jags in her soul, and I'm going to get cut by her if I'm not careful.
Jasinda Wilder
#66. Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and cold killing machine. A people without hate cannot triumph against the adversary.
Che Guevara
#67. The goodness of the world grew like moss in cracks, she thought. It grew, somehow, with hidden roots, nourished by something unseen.
K.J. Bishop
#68. Everybody loves baseball regardless of what they think about politics. That's the cool thing. You see all of the politicians and the military interaction. It's special. It cracks me up that politicians are such big baseball fans. You don't realize that. You just assume they wouldn't have time.
Drew Storen
#69. Your soulmate wasn't suppose to be perfect. You were meant to see the cracks in her soul and fill them with what you have and she was meant to see yours. Together you would be complete.
Shannon L. Alder
#70. I am broken the way most writers are, stories leaking through the cracks.
Victoria Schwab
#71. The fog was back. It seeped in through the streets, from the cracks around the closed windows behind the trees in the avenue, out of the blue door which opened after they had heard Weber's abrupt bark over the intercom, and out through the keyholes in the doors they passed on the way upstairs.
Jo Nesbo
#72. (a specially oily old gentleman in a blanket, with a swan's-down tippet for a beard, and a web of cracks all over him like rich pie-crust),
Charles Dickens
#73. Your name is Rain, isn't it? Rain slips in the cracks and slides through the seams. You can do it? Can't you?
Gregory Maguire
#74. Misty started to shake. "Oh, right. Don't worry. I was sitting here tied up, and you get shot, and you don't want me to worry." She swallowed, her throat dry. The thin-walled shack with its many cracks was like an oven. "You're a shithead, Graham.
Anonymous
#75. The only words that matter flow from the cracks in our spirit, through the breaches in our resolve.
C.B. Shiepe
#76. You grew between the cracks of my skin, I built you, cell by cell, over nine full moons, a flower grown from blood.
Key Ballah
#77. People are inexterminable like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices that's us.
Robert Frost
#78. Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.
Bruno Schulz
#79. The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless, can it bear the weight of before it cracks somewhere or other, splits at the joints?
Christa Wolf
#80. And Lopate's anthology helped a lot too. It came out the same year I started grad school, and I remember the book's publication feeling eventful and celebratory. It got a ton of attention for giving voice to this form that had sort of slipped between the cracks. That was exciting to see.
John D'Agata
#81. Overgrown, crumbling, tilted, full of cracks, returning to the soil. Paint fell from boards, plaster from walls. Unsupervised, matter was collapsing under its own weight.
Andrzej Stasiuk
#82. Ungrace causes cracks to fissure open between mother and daughter, father and son, brother and sister, between scientists, and prisoners, and tribes, and races. Left alone, cracks widen, and for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness.
Philip Yancey
#83. All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.
Cassandra Clare
#84. [God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes until one day there emerges His vision ... God has not yet finished with us.
Billy Graham
#85. Try to believe that maybe more light shines out of those who have the most cracks.
Mia Sheridan
#86. It's just endless what you can learn from a single work of art. You can fill up the crevices of your life, the cracks of your life, the places where the mortar comes out and falls away-you can fill it up with the love of art.
Vincent Price
#87. Even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in.
Shannon Hale
#88. Nobody was ever replaced in life, no hole completely filled or loss totally healed. You didn't need a medical degree to know that the human body really wasn't stronger in the broken places. Like any bone, the cracks would always show if you looked hard enough.
Lisa Scottoline
#89. The animals had filled the tidy new freight cars with the lingering smell of their sweat and waste, parasites infesting the cracks between the hoof-dented boards, the feeling of imminent slaughter staying with the train forever. Soon
Ian Kharitonov
#90. Get up and make notes on the books that you have, reflect on these notes and order more books, get up again, revise the hypothesis, and figure out a new plan of action. Repeat, making sure to leave no cracks open through which the gray fog of depression can penetrate. I
Barbara Ehrenreich
#91. And I'm looking through the glass Where the light bends at the cracks And I'm screaming at the top of my lungs Pretending the echoes belong to someone - Someone I used to know.
James K.A. Smith
#92. Life is complex and prone to being pedantic
Always little things crawl, flutter
and creep in.
Nesting in cracks in our psyches
Gibbering, whispering and scratching
on sanity's walls.
Messages without form or reason
Teasing us to come out
And blend in.
Neil Leckman
#93. I am tired of tripping over these Cracks in the Sidewalk,these cracks in my life.
Lillis Lish
#94. If it feels like cracks are forming in your life, those cracks may be what is needed for the light within to reveal itself.
Heidi DuPree
#95. Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.
Mary Harron
#96. Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.
Nina Easton
#97. The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
Darin Strauss
#98. Growing up is about realising the cracks in the pavement are nothing to worry about. It's the cracks inside that count.
Sarah Pinborough
#99. Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and edges. It's not about the falling in love. It's about the landing, the staying where you said you'd be and working to keep the love strong.
Kristin Hannah
#100. What we pass on moves forward to future generations. Never let anything important slip through the cracks.
Elizabeth B. Knaus
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