Broken Glass – Quotes

The woman let out

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it … Read more

As it enters the

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey? Eddie Condon

You were just a

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. … Read more

Break a vase, and

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. Derek Walcott

And that is also

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

I took out a

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

Best to let the

Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn’t ending: it had ended and now they were in … Read more

I saw a boy

I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass. Christopher Columbus

Mexican homes as a

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