“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”
— Cassandra Clare, book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
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