“What was broken will never be the same again.”

“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.”

“A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided—it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.”

“But the sky was never quite the same shade of blue again.”

“And I remember "normal" might never be the same again.”

“We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place…”

“It has never been like this and now it is exactly the same again.”

“Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.”

“There is those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves is a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.”

“As an egg, when broken, never
Can be mended, but must ever
Be the same crushed egg for ever—
So shall this dark heart of mine!”