A Quote by Edith Wharton

Some things are best mended by a break.

Edith Wharton

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Best Break Some Some Things Things

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Edith Wharton
American - Novelist
January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.

Cassandra Clare

You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again.

Robert Jordan

They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.

Robin Wasserman

Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

Jodi Picoult

Things break all the time. Glass and dishes and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a horse, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever... promises break. Hearts break.

Jodi Picoult

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

Joshua Homme

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

Sally Field

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

Charles Frazier

I'm greedier than anyone. I don't want some half-assed happiness I don't need some partial warmth. I want a happiness that goes on forever. That's impossible, though! I don't know why it is, but in this world, some interference is sure to come. Important things break right away. I've been alive for twenty-two years, and I know at least this much. It doesn't matter what the thing is, but it will break. That's why, from the beginning, it's better not to need anything.

Tatsuhiko Takimoto

Some people would break the rules to get things done and some wouldn't; it was simple as that. John didn't have much use for the latter.

Max Barry

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records

Shiv Khera

Some hurts can never be mended" he said. "No matter how much time passes. They tattoo themselves on our souls

Yasmine Galenorn

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One must be prepared for some surprises in life - some things will work out your way, some won't. You just have to keep working and do things to the best of your ability.