“...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.”
“Love turns a heart to crystal...Much more valuable, but much more fragile.”
“In this Fragile world,Crystals won’t do….I just want you to hold.”
“The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.”
“Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.”
“The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them.”