The Broken Places Quotes

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. —Kahlil Gibran”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“You make me feel like white doves and waffles,” he said.”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“Her whole world had been toppled—again—and she had this vague sense that though she wanted order, it shouldn’t be put back the way it was before.”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“She’d needed that strength. She’d needed someone to hold on to. She’d needed the warmth of love pressed directly against her.”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“He’d expected to be overwhelmed by horrific memories here, and he was shocked that now that he remembered the entirety of his story, he was able to see all the threads it’d been woven with.”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“The world breaks everyone and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“Because she—they—hadn’t only lost Tanner when he was nineteen; they’d lost him at every age he’d never be. And so in some sense, the loss never stopped. In many ways, it deepened over time.”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“Time buffed away the raw edges, yes, but underneath those edges were layers of what-ifs and what-could-have-beens, and they were as rough as sandpaper.”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“In the end, all we have are stories.”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“they’d lost him at every age he’d never be. And so in some sense, the loss never stopped. In many ways, it deepened over time.”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“time heals all wounds, as they say.” She barely held back a cringe. She hated that saying, and it wasn’t even true. In fact, it couldn’t be further from the truth. Time buffed away the raw edges, yes, but underneath those edges were layers of what-ifs and what-could-have-beens, and they were as rough as sandpaper. If you rubbed against them too hard and too often, you would make yourself raw. You would bleed.”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“that”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“What I know is that ethics laws haven’t caught up to the state of mental illness and PTSD in this world.”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places

“Hell, someone might have taken one turn too many with the purple, glittery plastic phallus.”
― Mia Sheridan, The Broken Places