fragile

It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. She understood why people talked about hearts "breaking"; she felt as if hers were made of cracked glass, and the shards were like tiny knives inside her chest when she breathed.

Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.

Silence gradually spread its great, fragile butterfly wings across the ward. The sun had disappeared, replaced by grey and rain. This particular month of July was reading the script for March.

She walked away without bothering to look further. She knew he__ be fine. Her specialty was subduing without causing any real damage. He__ lie there for a few minutes. He__ be sore, maybe bruised tomorrow. He__ brush the cobwebs off his imagination to invent a story for his buddies about how three seven-foot, three-hundred-pound male karate black belts attacked him in the park.But she would bet her life on the fact that he would never sneak up on another fragile-looking woman without remembering this night. And that was the point. That was what Gaia lived for.

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

31. The human body seems indestructible when we are young. However, it is incredibly fragile and must be care for if it is to serve us for a lifetime. Too often, the abuse it takes during early years (from drugs, improper nutrition, sporting injuries, etc.) becomes painful handicaps during later years.

Life is so transient, finite, and fragile that there is no time to hate anyone.

What else can you tell me?_ Dad stares at me. __hat have you learned while you were awake?__ learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he__l wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn__ determine whether you get it or not, that __o_ might not be enough, that life isn__ fair, that my parents can__ save me, that maybe no one can. __othing much,_ I mutter.