Top 44 Quotes About Fractures
#1. The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
Philip Roth
#2. Trauma fractures comprehension as a pebble shatters a windshield. The wound at the site of impact spreads across the field of vision, obscuring reality and challenging belief.
Jane Leavy
#4. Don't ever tell me I'm broken if you will not be the glue, and please don't point out the fractures if that's all you're allowed to do.
Tyler Knott Gregson
#5. Language falters in the abyss; it fractures at the site of trauma. We need to find a different way of speaking from the depths, reclaiming the notion that language about God is always fractured language, always broken, and never complete.
Shelly Rambo
#6. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained by logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the hinges that held them together.
Lisa Kleypas
#7. Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.
G. K. Butterfield
#8. But it was the doctor's body, the sudden way he moved the folders on his desk, the way he moved back from Harmon, that Harmon would always remember. As though he had known what Harmon didn't know, that lives get knit together like bones, and fractures might not heal.
Elizabeth Strout
#9. They walk on endlessly. Time elongates, fractures, rewinds and replays in stuttering moments that - while they have no coherent internal logic - all seem drearily familiar and inevitable.
M.R. Carey
#10. Do you truly feel nothing?" she whispered. "Are you without fractures?" "It's better this way." His eyes kissed her with frost. "The day I feel is the day I die.
Nalini Singh
#11. Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.
Lisa Kleypas
#12. I have a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), which has affected my growth and bone strength. In short, people with the kind of OI I have generally experience hundreds of fractures in their lifetime and use wheelchairs for mobility.
Stella Young
#13. I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures.
Bill Walton
#14. He had had his own feelings hurt over and over by Adam, even when Adam had meant no harm. Some of the worst fractures had appeared because Adam hadn't realized the he was causing them.
Maggie Stiefvater
#15. She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.
Khaled Hosseini
#16. We shattered, but we put the pieces back together, and I love the way your fractures shine.
Ann Aguirre
#17. He looks at me, the light in his eyes fractures into millions of bits - a kaleidoscope of darkness that may never be fixed.
Alyson Noel
#18. Our hearts may have broken in Nebraska but in Colorado they split open along the fractures, crumble to pieces, blow away. The peaks and green valleys, the lakes set at the foot of mountains like offerings. Beautiful and doomed and thus terrible.
Ron Currie Jr.
#19. [ ... ] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found in the ancient skeletons.
James Henry Breasted
#20. A heart with so many stress fractures would never be anything but broken.
Jodi Picoult
#21. Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States, Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
#22. I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang!
Tom Brokaw
#24. The electricity devours my soul, fractures it open, and leaves it vulnerable and exposed.
Jessica Sorensen
#25. You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
Carrie Jones
#26. The broken parts of me recognise the fractures in him, even if he hasn't permitted me close enough to touch them yet.
Lara Adrian
#27. Only a few hairline fractures around his eyes and lips spoke of the torment he'd been through. I wanted to smooth those lines away, and wished it was that easy to erase the scars of our past." ~ Muse, Drowning In The Dark #4 The Veil Series.
Pippa DaCosta
#28. ...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.
When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.
A. Ashley Straker
#29. The Arrow Squad had to die. For some inexplicable reason, this midlevel telepath and field medic was its nucleus; cut him out and the resulting fractures would mean the rest would be far easier to eliminate.
Nalini Singh
#30. The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.
Don Kardong
#31. As we may know, osteoporosis affects around 10 million Americans, most of whom are over 55, and it is the cause of an estimated 1.5 million fractures annually.
Lois Capps
#33. Things taste sweeter when you have some hunger left to linger. You feel it hunting your head for buried things; digging into the fractures of your breath warm and greedy.
Bilal Tanweer
#34. Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling could only result in cracks and fractures. People could cut themselves on the edgesof her heart, she was sure of it.
Stephanie Kallos
#35. Life was like the ice on an early-winter pond: more fragile than it appeared to be, riddled by hidden fractures, with a cold darkness below.
Dean Koontz
#36. After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.
Jodi Picoult
#37. I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
Pam Ferris
#38. Football has always been violent. In the early days of the game, they didn't wear hard helmets. They wore soft helmets, which were just designed to protect the ears. In the '40s and '50s they began to introduce hard helmets, which provided much more protection against things like skull fractures.
Greg Ip
#39. Nothing can fix a broken heart except love. Love always repairs those fractures we get in our heart.
Lindsay McKenna
#40. The doctor said I was lucky that I ended up with only fractures. From
Jeff Adams
#41. Just as a balloon too full of air eventually bursts, a person too full of sadness eventually breaks. Fractures like a cracked bone. Shatters like glass. Snaps like a rubber band.
Anoosha Lalani
#42. The girl who climbed up the water tower. We would have counted her an accident until the medical examiner found breaks and fractures from her hips to her heels. "You fall head first," he said. "Feet first's a jump.
Thomas Lynch
#43. Emotion doesn't travel in a straight line. Like water, our feelings trickle down through cracks and crevices, seeking out the little pockets of neediness and neglect, the hairline fractures in our character usually hidden from public view.
Sue Grafton
#44. I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.
Tom Brokaw
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