Shattering Quotes

“Many think they play the last act. With life in turmoil, they seem to live the setup of a shattering countdown. To an insistent appeal for crucial answers, they only receive evasive responses or killing silence. But since the banks of their patience are bursting, an intractable cataclysm disturbs their interior world. Yet, this disruption might allow them to restore their emotional power by cleansing the oppressive environment and purifying the air that they breathe. ("Corporeal prison".)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Am I shattered enough already,
or am I
shattering? (And when do I start to build?)”
― Will Walton, I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain

“On my bedside table is a snow globe with a winterscape inside.
Church, park bench, girl standing shin-deep in snow. Tip the snow globe over and a blizzard of slow snow falls over church and bench and girl. What is it about snow globes that makes them fascinating and terrifying at once?

My heart lurches at the thought of the snow-globe girl waiting endlessly, with only the hope of a new snow blizzard to settle on her mantle when the next person tips her snow-globe world over. Not a gust of breeze may ruffle her skirt, not a bird may perch atop the steeple. The only way out of a snow globe is by shattering the glass dome that is its sky.”
― Amruta Patil, Kari

“The whole thing, the way it all happened, was shattering. And what it shattered most of all was some conception I'd had of myself, some wholeness.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“... everything I was shattering into stars and galaxies and comets, nothing but pure, shining joy.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Frost and Starlight

“with limits, you have to know which ones you are supposed to accept, and which ones you must surpass. Do not waste your time trying to find the knowledge of the universe, that is Gods place and you cannot surpass it. Do spend time getting better at what you are good at and trying out what you are bad at. Limits are either for protection, or for shattering. There is no 'in between'. If there was, I highly doubt the world would be like it is today.”
― Unicornfarts2000

“Not every silence breaks beautifully, like a delicate melody. There are silences that shatter into countless pieces, each shard a fragment of unspoken words, a soundless explosion of feelings.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“I like having sex with Vale,” I blurted. Or maybe not. He froze. The sudden shock of heat in the way he stared at me tunnelled right through to my toes. He growled out a sound of desire that belonged more to an animal than an unshakable man like Vale.

“That one was very personal.” Helki was flexing his fingers, trying not to turn them into fists as he swivelled a dark glower to Vale.

“I liked sex with you too, Beast.” I applauded my own confidence as I managed to keep a straight face. “It was shattering."

Andel groaned, his head falling into his hands. “Tell me she didn’t just make a spinal injury joke.”
― Jane Washington, A World of Lost Words

“People called it heartbreak, but Evangeline thought that losing someone you loved broke more than just a heart. When she had lost her first love, it had shattered her entire world.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After