Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.
This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.
I was 21 and homeless - such a broken, lost woman.
A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.
A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.
The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
I was brought up in a house where I was so aware of a life that had been broken by politics and conflict.
