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. . . because she knows the secret: that humans need contact to thrive, that a broken heart is only one crack away from a broken spirit, and that both can be mended by smoothing on thin layers of love.


Amy Matayo

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ELIZABETH GILBERT A heart can be shared.
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MARGARET MITCHELL I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
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COLSON WHITEHEAD I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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ANN BRASHARES I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.
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FULTON J. SHEEN That situation is a broken heart just waiting to happen
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ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincib...
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MARTIN Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.
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STEVE MURPHY The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken h...
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HEATHER O'NEILL A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
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OSCAR WILDE Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be b...
SAM KEEN We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.
JOHN GREEN We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken
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AMY SEDARIS When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the...
AMY BLOOM People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Na...
AMY BLOOM I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.
AMY SMART I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are r...
AMY POEHLER I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's ...
AMY WALDMAN And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...
AMY TAN I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting cl...
AMY HEMPEL My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with...
AMY CHUA I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. An...
AMY ADAMS Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.
AMY GRANT My dad is dead. And as I type this, by the window, on the rainy day, I am alive, yes. I am living. B...
AMY FUSSELMAN