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“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”

People Trying Faces Ability Forever Expression Broken Awkward Cracked Trust Others

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.”

World Looks Made Dream Crazy Broken Mirrors Chaos Lunatic Cracked Broken Images

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.”

Men Names Subjects Broken Glasses Reputation Nails Torn Garments Cracked Reproach Tainted

Book:The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

Source: The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works

“My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.”

Made Hard Faces Broken Safe Stones Revelations Mask Covered Cracked Psychosis

Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

“He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.”

Children Moments Might Faces White Animal Cities Expression Broken Stones Silent Climbing Scream Towers Summit Repose Cracked Chained Climbing Up

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love”

Bigs Born Wise Broken Fairs All Things Bigger Dear Length Liars Tall Truthful Let It Go Vow Oath Cracked

Book:100 Selected Poems

Source: 100 Selected Poems

“I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one hundred, two... yes, you'll do nicely. A cracked companion makes me look more whole, gives me something outside myself to care for. When I'm with whole, healed people I feel my own cracks, the shatters, the insanities of dislocation in myself.”

People Giving Feels Looks Two Whole Care My Own Broken Hundred Let Me Give Me Insanity Companion Cracks Surround Healed Cracked Dislocation

Book:Sickened

Source: Sickened

“I have never really thought of him as a person, either.... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn’t feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.”

Feels Persons Guy Fields Broken Roots Connected Like Me Grass Strings Cracked Leaves Of Grass

Author:John Green

“Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody.”

People Thinking Trying Heart Persons Pain Poor Broken Fool Filled Cups Almighty Cracked Almighty God

Book:McKettrick Men Complete Collection: McKettrick's Luck\McKettrick's Pride\McKettrick's Heart

Source: McKettrick Men Complete Collection: McKettrick's Luck\McKettrick's Pride\McKettrick's Heart

“How are you?" "Perfectly fine," he said. "Are your ribs broken?" "Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully." "Did this settle anything?" "It made me feel better," he said, sitting up. "Did you see me kick him in the kidneys?" "I saw.”

Feels Made Said Saws Broken Fine Sitting Settling Kicks Feel Better Cracked Ribs Kidneys Sitting Up

Author:Ilona Andrews

“When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?”

World Hard Joy Grows Grace Broken Rain Skins Lays Best Things Dry Soil Being The Best Penetrate Cracked Hard Life Crevice

Author:Ann Voskamp