Kate DiCamillo Quotes

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place.

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.

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

I've been hurt so many times I don't have the balls for it anymore.

My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

Different phases of your life have different levels of deep, traumatizing heartbreak, and in this period of my life, my heart was not irreparably broken. So it’s not as boy-centric of an album, because my life hasn’t been boy-centric.

When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.