Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

do you fix a wheel that isn't broken, or do you wait until the cart collapses?

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

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.

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?