“Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.”

“It is funnier to bend things than to break them.”

“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”

“Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend”

“Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.”

“When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.”

“Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.”

“All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind.”

“And I won't break and I won't bend,
But someday soon we'll sail away
To innocence and the bitter end.
And I won't break and I won't bend,
And with the last breath we ever take
We're gonna get back to the simple life again.”

“The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.”