Fragile State Quotes

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

She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.

I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked his torn shirt.He felt warm and strong and heartbreakingly familiar. And at that moment, not a single thing in my life was certain, strong, or whole. Nothing. Least of all Fang.

The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt...and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.

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

You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

In the current situation, it is very difficult for foreign NGOs to work in Somalia because it is so unstable and dangerous. I really hope that my country will one day rise out of this mess and reach the potential it has.

I don't like seeing her this delicate.

...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

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

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

Yielding, like ice about to melt.

Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

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.

At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.

Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.

Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

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