“This is a book about fracture. About the experiences that make up a life. About the pieces of me. Delving into naked emotion is a terrifying proposition. Digging into our souls to look for answers that may not be there is a ledge most of us avoid. And yet, here I am.” CourageHonestyBroken Pieces Book:Broken Pieces Source: Broken Pieces
“My world, created by glass and flame in the birth of your heat, implodes inside the shadowed walls of my heart. I swallowed the shards you gave me, your eyes on mine. Nothing is easy. I wait, feeling your hands holding the shattered pieces of my soul together in the molten, darkest recesses of the heart you claimed, unwilling to give up. I am inside you, waiting to come out.” LovePatienceShards Book:Broken Pieces Source: Broken Pieces
“She wondered If I had woken up, would I have smelled his sadness, his desperation, and his detachment? His death, her breath. He told her once, she remembers, these two words have no other rhyme but each other. If she could go back, she thinks -- She would open her eyes, instead of her heart.” InspirationalBeautifulEmotionalDeep ThoughtsRaw Book:Broken Pieces Source: Broken Pieces
“I gave my heart to a man who loved me, who wanted to be with me. Who ultimately was afraid of all I offered. I didn’t understand why he sabotaged our future at the time – cheating on me, again, as we were making final plans to move in together. By the time he came over to smooth talk his way out of it, I was done. No more crying. Even my tears had given up on him. I’d already moved on, his cheating was simply the key left in the mailbox.” MenLoveWomenCheating Book:Broken Pieces Source: Broken Pieces
“We look at your eyes. The eyes carry the wounds. The eyes know damage. Damaged people recognize other damaged people, and we let you in. We are kindred. - Broken Places” PoetryAbuseTraumaDamage Author:Rachel Thompson
“It's a lie that all the elements work together in unison—they fight for prominence, just as we fight for the one we need, filling our core, giving us life. I needed air to move. To end. To begin.” PoetryMemoirBroken People Author:Rachel Thompson
“We didn’t explode. It was more a quiet implosive retreat. Patiently gathering my forces and wits, Strategically placing every moment on my hidden board of fools.” PoetryMemoirBroken People Author:Rachel Thompson
“I still can’t wrap my mind around crossing that line of human behavior – civilized people punching and fighting, making violence their communication of choice. Is it because I’m a woman, I’ve never considered hitting someone who acted inappropriately? Even one of my best male friends, a gentle man, a believer in spirit and mankind, has thrown a few punches in his time. As a writer, my weapons are words. The thought of hurting someone physically to prove my point has never and will never be an option for me. Well, let me amend that: if someone hurt my child in front of me, tiger-mother’s claws would come out.” Physical Violence Book:Broken Pieces Source: Broken Pieces
“Women have rooms inside of us men cannot fathom. It’s where we store the depths of the hurt we’ve been dealt. Where we store the deep love we never want to lose.” LoveWomenHurt Book:Broken Pieces Source: Broken Pieces