Every Bright and Broken Thing Quotes

“I couldn’t do it anymore, so I left it all behind. And no matter how hard I tried, I fell apart too. We’re not invincible.”
― Brian McBride, Every Bright and Broken Thing

“Like a picture out of focus, I’m starting to think that I don’t even know who I am anymore. And that feeling – like being sucked out into the vacuum of space without a suit – is the most terrifying of all.”
― Brian McBride, Every Bright and Broken Thing

“Skyscrapers tower above me, lifeless, iron giants stretching for the sky, reaching toward something more. And I’m reaching, too.”
― Brian McBride, Every Bright and Broken Thing

“We’re all broken,” she says. “You have to stop treating yourself like a special case. You may be broken in different places, but it’s damage all the same.”
― Brian McBride, Every Bright and Broken Thing

“I am a foreigner in this place right now. Not just this empty house – a house that once held such joy and laughter, a house marked by family and faith. But this world too. It’s like I’m a refugee, always running, running, running. And every time I arrive somewhere, hoping for sanctuary, I’m met with rejection.”
― Brian McBride, Every Bright and Broken Thing

“Music is the language of our generation. I want to do
something more than just perform. I want to give language to what people like us – people with shared experiences – actually feel. Music does that, y’know?”
― Brian McBride, Every Bright and Broken Thing

“When I look at people, I don’t see their wounds. I see their scars. Because scars mean healing.”
― Brian McBride, Every Bright and Broken Thing

“The lies are so much a part of me now that, sometimes, I think they’re more real than the truth.”
― Brian McBride, Every Bright and Broken Thing