“Ladies' hearts are like china on a mantelpiece. There are so many of them, and it is so easy to break them without noticing.”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“If the young leddy was so careless o' insulting other folks' ancestors, it proves she has nane o' her ain; for them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful no to break the china plates of others.”

“While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.”

“Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.”

“For they truly know their Lord in the breaking of bread, whose heart within them so vehemently burneth, whilst Thou, O blessed Jesus, dost walk and converse with them.”

“Why is it, little Shadowhunter, that your angels are so cold and without mercy? Why do they break that which will not obey them?”

“Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.”

“So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.”

“Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.
-Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)”