“And we are so fragile,and our cracking nones make noise, and we are just breakable, breable, breakable girls”
“Cinderella never had it so good. All she got was a lousy coach and breakable shoes.”
“..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.”
“The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.”
“to be breakable is not the same as to be perishable. Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant; simply do not strike it, and it will endure a thousand years.”
“He had to remember what she was. Human. Breakable. And he was an animal who liked to play rough.”