“The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.”

“Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.

“Lovers lie around in it
Broken glass is found in it
Grass
I like that stuff”

“"Woken up, have you?" the woman said. Her voice was like broken glass in an ice bucket.†
† Unexpectedly sharp. And cold. No one can say I don't work hard describing things for you.”

“It’s the same old song,
You’ve gotta be somewhere at sometime,
And they never let you fly.
It’s like broken glass,
You get cut before you see it,
So open up your eyes.”

“I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.”

“Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.”

“In his house he had a large looking-glass, before which he would stand and go through his exercises.”

“I’m packed with broken glass and memories and it all hurts.”

“A shaft of fire that falls like dew,
And melts and maddens all my blood,
From out thy spirit flashes through
The burning glass of womanhood.”