“As for broken hearts, no self-respecting young woman shows such an ornament at any well regulated breakfast-table; they are kept in dark drawers and closets like other broken furniture.”

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

“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people”

“Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.”

“I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.”

“He feels like a handle broken off a jug,
but the jug doesn't know it's broken and keeps going to the well.”

“I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”

“My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken.”

“Dante's corpus as a whole is in certain respects like a testament to the closing medieval age; it shows what the Western world would have been had it not broken from its tradition.”

“The heart was made to be broken.”