“Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?”

“She waits until her brokenness can break her.”

“Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.”

“Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces. Each half was glowing, and beating under all that white.”

“You know she's gonna leave my broken heart behind her.”

“Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life.”

“There are two kinds of girls in this world. The kind who breaks hearts and the kind who gets her heart broken.”

“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.”

“She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends.”

“If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.”