“I am too fucking fragile. I hate being fragile.”
“[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.”
“Life is a fragile thing. Apparently the whole world is fragile too.”
“I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.”
“Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?""Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.”
“Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile”