Breakable You Quotes

“What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you'll always be alright.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“We wish for a symmetry of feeling, but we rarely get it. It is painful to be the one who loves more, and painful to be the one who loves less.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“Every choice we make is either a grwoth choice or a fear choice.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“...it isn't a bad thing to remember that you have some wildness in you, that not every inch of your soul is honorable and responsible and presentable and tamped and tamed.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“...a piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“Knowledge is always a good thing, even when it makes us unhappy”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“Without her glasses Vivian did look a little frightening. She had tight sinewy strappy muscles and a face that was hardened and almost brutal - a face that might have been chiseled by a sculptor who had fallen out of love with the idea of beauty.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“...life brings you everything at once. You can be in misery because of the misery of your daughter at the same time as you're exhilarated by a new romance, a romance that feels like the first act of a
new life.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“Maybe a man can change. It helps when you've been injured, when you've been dislodged from the complacent routines of your life. Sometimes it takes an injury to make you see what you share with others.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“It's probably true that you're forging your own character during every minute of every day, with every decision you make, but there are some moments in which this is more clear than in others.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You

“What you are he said, is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends, and you need someone not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you will always be all right.”
― Brian Morton, Breakable You