"Of course I’m shielding her, you broken feather!"
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"People die, Rachel," Ceri said, her cheeks flushing. "Not if I can help it," I snapped. "And not of a broken heart. If you could, I'd be dead already."
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"She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors."
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"Vlad made a sound too harsh to be a growl. "You won't be satisfied until you've brought me to my knees, is that it?" "Why not?" It shot out of me with all the recklessness of my still-broken heart. "You brought me to mine."
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"The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love."
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"You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person."
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"The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished from the planet and there will be no one to remember that any of us ever did anything. But this fact, strangely, does not delegitimize hope, because every now and again we find evidence that hope is helpful. This evidence, in my opinion, should be celebrated-even as we lament and fight the devastation."
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"A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That's what is at stake."
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"There's no me if there's no me and you."
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"You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future."
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"Broken china lasts longer than unbroken."
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"We Play the broken string of our instruments one last time"
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"Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good."
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"No headboards were broken."
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"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."
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"When it comes to immigration reform, now is the time ... I've never seen a better political environment ... I'm not doing immigration reform to solve the Republican Party's political problem. I'm trying to save our nation from, I think, a shortage of labor and a catastrophic broken system."
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"He kissed her as though he were starved for her. Like he'd been held away from her and had finally broken free. It was the kind of kiss that lived only in her fantasies. No one had ever made her feel so..consumed."
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"It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children."
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"I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections."
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"Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics."
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