Marie Lu Quotes

My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can

I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.

I do have a delicate side.

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

An ear can break a human heart As quickly as a spear, We wish the ear had not a heart So dangerously near.

We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

I'm a lightweight better be careful what you say With every word I'm blown away You're in control of my heart

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

I'm still vulnerable and still weak.

Jeezum—humans were like eggshells.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst.

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people: It is all glass.

things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.