“Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned.”

“If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces... It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.”

“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.”

“We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.”

“A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.”

“One can never force another to reveal passion they do not possess or feel with in the heart. We are erected from life experiences and the broken pieces that could be salvaged.”

“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.”

“Love is like a teacup that every day falls to the ground and breaks to pieces. In the morning the pieces are gathered and with a little moisture and a little warmth, the pieces are glued together, and again there is a little teacup. He who is in love spends life fearing that the terrible day will come when the teacup is so broken that it can no longer mended.”

“Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.”

“Broken things are powerful.”