“So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.” MeanDoeAbleUnderstandingLosesTalkingBrokenResearch Author:Will Smith
“Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.” IfsFactsShowsTogetherPastChancePrayerTalkingConditionsBrokenPrayingUnionsChosenInsaneBitterOddsAgainst All OddsGet It Together Book:Help, Thanks, Wow Source: Help, Thanks, Wow
“I was talking to a friend of mine who's a teacher in Iowa and, you know, she teaches kids - English is their second language, and they're scared that they're going to get sent home, their family's going to get broken up. Regardless of whether [Donald Trump] does it or not, whether it's true or not, the rhetoric creates a climate of fear and tension, and that's not good for the country.” KnowsDoeCountryHomeKidsLanguageTalkingTeachTeacherMinesBrokenTrumpClimateScaredTensionRhetoricIowaBroken Up Author:Margaret Hoover
“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.” KnowsWantLongFeelingsFatherTalkingDogBrokenDiedRoseBoxesBoatPocketsChocolateCaptainsStemLiedBox Of Chocolates Author:Leonard Cohen
“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.” KnowsMenMindWellsHeartChildrenEndsCountryEarthLawHateFallEnjoySilenceTalkingSunGoneSadnessLandCryFieldsBrokenPagesLovelyBelovedCustomsTribesHeart And MindDoomMessengersBeloved CountryCry The Beloved Country Author:Alan Paton
“That was close,"he said, helping himself to coffee. Yeah, you almost opened the door to Morelli." I wasn't talking about Morelli. I was talking about us." That too," I said. Ranger sliced a bagel and looked for the toaster. It's broken,"I told him. He truned the boiler on and slid the bagel into the oven. That's surprisingly domestic for a man of mystery," I said to him. He looked at me over the rim of his coffee mug. "I like things hot.” MenSaidHelpingTalkingDoorsMysteryBrokenHotYeahCoffeeRangersOvensRimsMugToastersBagelsBoilerCoffee Mug Author:Janet Evanovich
“With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.” WorldTogetherTalkingPiecesBrokenBack TogetherBeing Broken Author:Rachel Cohn