Unbroken Quotes

“The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.”
― Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything

“To be unbroken, what would that be?
If words that were spoken, had not shattered me”
― ZOEgirl, ZOEgirl: Different Kind of Free: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

“The bent but unbroken ones.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...
Dead silence.
Literally dead.”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

“After we sat, Ava glared sidelong at Giti. 'Sorry I slap you last week, but I did not think you would ever stop talking, and I had somewhere to go.' Then, with a quick toss of her head, 'Bad day.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Persianality

“I could burn a forest down with these feelings--feelings desperate to erupt. Volcanic. A cauldron expanding with the fullness of longings, ready to scorch this backward little village.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Persianality

“This feminine billboard of Middle-Eastern fashion stopped me on the street last month. She ran her hand over the seam of my jilbab, admiring the color and fabric. She only said a few words. 'We are living in a gender-quake, a modern sexodus. We have a duty to project dis female revolution in da way we dress. Come visit me at the Monkey Bar and tell me who tailors your outfits.' She's been my fashion role model ever since.”
― Michael Benzehabe, Persianality

“Dad would call it my Sisyphus toll. Push a boulder up a hill, pretending it’s okay, and come nightfall it - and I - come crashing down. But he forgets the view each time I make it to the top.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

“All he had left was his alcohol and his resentment, the emotion that, Jean Améry would write, “nails every one of us onto the cross of his ruined past.”
― laura hillendbrand

“You can only heal a broken heart through allowing it to open again; a closed heart remains a wounded heart. Many battles may be lost but you are not broken and you are not your wounds.”
― Christine Evangelou, Stardust and Star Jumps: A Motivational Guide to Help You Reach Toward Your Dreams, Goals, and Life Purpose

“To find magic in the mending.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

“It’d be easy to get lost here, in the spaces where I feel like a ghost. A spirit who couldn’t touch, or be touched. It’d be easy, so easy, to drown. But I keep swimming back towards the shore.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

“One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory”
― Louis Zamperini

“On a good day, I'm a first class prick, but even I know that being treated like you're disposable is something no one should ever be used to.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Unbroken

“It’s not the place that creates the magic, Ryder. It’s the person. The magic is wherever you are.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Unbroken

“You’re brave.” Lorna said. “I’m not,” I assured her, trying not to bristle. I hate being called brave. It’s almost as bad as inspiring.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

“The word pain does too much work, you know? It’s like sorry, which really shouldn’t have to carry both “I sympathize” and “this is all my fault.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

“But I live here, in this place. And I don’t know how to tell you that. I don’t want you to squirm, or take my hand and say it’s tragic. I don’t want you to roll your eyes as though I’m playing a macho game of one-upmanship: My pain can beat up everyone else’s adolescent pain, so I’ll just be over here in the corner, savoring the depths of my stoic suffering and shedding no more than a single tear when I listen to every single cover of “Hurt” and “Hallelujah” on repeat. No, you can’t help me. Don’t try to help me. Please try to help me.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

“By growing entire waves of reminiscence,
I, a fellow traveler of the same period
will keep waiting for the
melody of your song
right at the same river … unbrokenly …”
― Geeta Tripathee, Simalko Geet

“I was worthy before. Maybe with him I can be worthy again.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Unbroken

“I refer you to my earlier statement. I love you, Ryder. It doesn’t shut off because you run away. It doesn’t die because you want it to in order to protect me. You think you’re destroying me, but loving you strengthens me. Heals the broken.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Unbroken

“The untouched created the unbroken.”
― Melyssa Winchester, Unbroken

“Louie never left himself a moment to think of the war. "I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled," he said later, "and I just wanted to keep being filled.:”
― Laure Hillenbrand

“While it is unclear who had done so, someone had produced a heroine. Cleopatra's was an honorable death, a dignified death, an exemplary death. She had presided over it herself, proud and unbroken to the end. By the Roman definition she had at last done something right; finally it was to her credit that she had defied the expectations of her sex. Women inevitably win points in Roman histories for swallowing hot coals or hanging themselves by their hair or hurling themselves from rooftops or handing bloody daggers along to their husbands with three quiet words of encouragement: "It isn't painful.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life