Fragile Items Quotes

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.

Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many perils. It may shatter under the blows of criticism, evaporate with competition's heat, sink to the bottomless depths of others' indifference. Tend to your dream. Protect it as you would a fallen nestling. Until the day when it—and you—will fly.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Packing is my pet hate.

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything. I own vintage pottery cups, and I let my girls hold them. It teaches them to treat objects with respect.

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!