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  • Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his skin with razors and broken glass. Oskan wanted to scream, but his vocal cords had burned away. He was desperate for water and he could hear it dripping all around him, but his charred tongue found nothing in his mouth but blisters and scorched flesh. For hours he lay on the ropes of the low bed, unable to move, the pressure of the hemp on his destroyed skin sending new agonies deep into his body.

    Pain   Moving   Glasses  
    Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.352, Scholastic Inc.
  • Rahul Dravid is a player who would walk on broken glass if his team asks him to

    Team   Player   Glasses  
  • Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

    Fall   Men   Glasses  
    Arthur Helps (1873). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.25
  • Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

    Dog   Glasses   Broken  
  • One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

    Philosophy   Blow   Wind  
  • You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting the light, shifting into an infinite universe of flowers and rainbows and insects and planets, magical dividing cells, pictures no one else knew.

    Flower   Boys   Light  
    Francesca Lia Block (2009). “Wasteland”, p.6, Harper Collins
  • I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

    Artist   Usual   Tools  
    Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag
  • As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

    Music   Glasses   Broken  
  • There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade of light that flashed off the sand, from a bleached shell or a peice of broken glass, my jaws tightened. I walked for a long time.

    Sea   Glasses   Light  
  • Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?

    New Musical Express, November 2005.
  • Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

    Lying   Party   Home  
  • Do you know what pain is, Cammie? It’s the body’s physical response to imminent harm. It is the mind’s way of telling us to move our hand off the stove or let go of the broken glass.

  • Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff

    Lying   Glasses   Stuff  
  • It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all think that everyone else lives in fortresses, in fastnesses: behind moats, behind sheer walls studded with spikes and broken glass. But in fact we inhabit much punier structures. We are, as it turns out, all jerry-built. Or not even. You can just stick your head under the flap of the tent and crawl right in. If you get the okay.

    Wall   Thinking   Glasses  
    "Time's Arrow". Book by Martin Amis, www.avclub.com. September 1991.
  • I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

    Glasses   Knives   Broken  
    Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag
  • When we opened the doors, we saw that the entire room was scorched black and you were on the floor possibly dead, surrounded by broken glass. Window glass is expensive, you realize that?" "Yes, Your Majesty," he said meekly.

    Glasses   Doors   Broken  
  • I'd crawl over broken glass for Elle MacPherson or Cindy Crawford.

    "Jersey Devil". Interview With Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 9, 2006.
  • Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home this hard. Reading of Eddie Perlmutter's exploits is like rolling in an aisle paved with broken glass and wanting to do it all over again two minutes later.

    Reading   Home   Two  
  • The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

    Boys   Islands   Glasses  
    Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
  • Each individual cat got up and did his thing. It wasn't like today where they come down and put down some nice linoleum so you don't get burnt up. I mean, we used to b-boy right in the middle of the park with broken glass everywhere! And you'd get up and you'd be all scratched and burised and bleeding and you would be ready to go right back in the circle. You'd just wipe the glass off your elbows and go right back in.

    Nice   Mean   Cat  
  • One of the most challenging ways is to slow down enough to relax our heart and feel what is nearest. It could be the sun reflecting off of broken glass in an alley. It could be the shine on a crow. It could be snow on a lamp post.

  • I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.

    Fire   Glasses   Ice  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller pieces and dust and scatter. Let the cracks between things widen until they are no longer cracks but the new places for things. That was where they were now. The world wasn't ending: it had ended and now they were in the new place. They could not recognize it because they had never seen it before.

    Glasses   Dust   Broken  
    Colson Whitehead (2011). “Zone One”, p.257, Random House
  • Sometimes it is like juggling with broken glass because both things are very sensitive and have to be handled with care. I can't let the career be neglected and I can't let my family and children be neglected either.

  • Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

    Derek Walcott (2014). “What the Twilight Says: Essays”, p.69, Macmillan
  • Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.

    Fall   Heart   Thinking  
    John Donne, Theodore Redpath (2009). “The Songs and Sonets of John Donne”, p.166, Harvard University Press
  • An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.

    Tired   Glasses   Broken  
    Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.33, Random House
  • I remember hearing myself start to whimper, a five-year-old, crouched by the side of the road, staring into my father's eyes, whimpering because it was so dark and there was no one coming to help, whimpering because my mother was back in the crushed car, not moving, and my father was lying here in the dirt, not answering me, not holding me, not comforting me, not helping my mother get out of the car, and there was blood, so much blood, and broken glass everywhere, and it was so dark and so cold and no one was coming to help.

    Mother   Father   Lying  
    Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Bitten”, p.32, Vintage Canada
  • Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

    "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 280,
  • Elvis!" Min shoved herself off the couch to shoo him away. "Stay away from there. There's broken glass." "He did that on purpose," David said, outraged. "Yes, David, the cat is plotting against you." Min fished the base out of the water and glass shards and put it on the table. Then she went to get her wastebasket and began to put the glass pieces in it.

    Cat   Glasses   Broken  
    Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.251, Macmillan
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