As We Break Quotes

“I nearly laughed. “So he creates us so He can break us apart and watch us crumble and crawl to Him?” It sounded harsh.

“He creates us with strength to handle the world when we feel pain,” he said. He didn’t sound defensive like I had expected. “When we aren’t whole, like you said. We’re going to break. He knows that, but He loves us even when we’re shattered. We don’t have to lie about it. That’s the point, for that is how love works.”

“Huh?”

“Love is proven in the broken times, and God is love.”
― E.E. Martin, As We Break

“How do I even start?” she murmured. She pulled back and shrugged one shoulder and pressed her chin toward it. “What do I do when I think about this? How do you go to tomorrow when yesterday has its claws in you? Do you think at all?”

“You remember this,” I said. I took her hand without permission. Her chin trembled, but she didn’t pull away. “God is love.”
― E.E. Martin, As We Break

“Yeah, well that’s the thing about ignorance,” she said. “You can prove it wrong over and over and that doesn’t make it change. But every now and then you find someone in the pack that has a chance of breaking free and being an intelligent, feeling human.”
― E.E. Martin, As We Break

“I can say one good thing about the south. They cook like that’s what life’s about.”
― E.E. Martin, As We Break

“Breaking is what makes us beautiful in the end if we are brave enough to put ourselves back together. And you—you are breathtaking.”
― E.E. Martin, As We Break

“You know, they treat Christianity more like a competition than a community,” she said. “And they know they can’t win on their own merit, so they crucify everyone else so they have a chance.”
― E.E. Martin, As We Break