#broken

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me. ↗

— John Woolman

#before #broken #dangers #desires #earnestness

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow. ↗

— Neil Young

#broken #i #just #old #wrote

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love. ↗

— Selena Gomez

#broken #exactly #experience #first #first love

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross. ↗

— Jane Grey

#body #bread #broken #christ #cross

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#face #heart #species #stupidity

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#broken #characters #grow #grow up #up

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#poverty

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#been #broken #either #england #france

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#also #believe #broken #care #complicated

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lauren-oliver #broken