"Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole."

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Source : Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

Jodi Picoult

#Heart Quotes #Promise Quotes #Together Quotes

“Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.”
“A photographic portrait needs more collaboration between sitter and artist than a painted portrait.”

Source : Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alison Gernsheim (1978). “Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works”, p.24, Courier Corporation
“I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.”
“I remain a simple man who has more questions than answers. Please join me as I seek to turn that tide.”
“I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.”
“The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.”
“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.”
“"The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."”

Source : Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1902). “John Inglesant: A Romance ...”

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