“This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people”
John Connolly (1968) author
Source: The Unquiet
“She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.”
— Jane Austen, book Northanger Abbey
Source: Northanger Abbey
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