Phyllis McGinley Quotes

My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.

The most pitiful human ailment is a birdseed heart.

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

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

The heart was made to be broken.

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

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, 'The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

A man's ego is just as fragile as a woman's heart

Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.

You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

There's a certain grace to having your heart broken.

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

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

That you can know what i have in me and still want me as much as i want you. i go to sleep every night afraid i'll wake up and you'll be gone.or that i scared you away ... that i dreamed you-" "no. Gideon." jesus he broke my heart every day. shattered me.

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet.