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To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous — Yukio Mishima

I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between. — Becca Fitzpatrick

You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces. — Joe Abercrombie

But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I guess what I'm really trying to say is that you used to shatter easily. But
now you've become less brittle. — Sherry Thomas

Him.You are good, O God, and You are faithful. Tenderize and soften our Lenten hearts, we pray, lest they grow brittle and break. — Jan Karon

On the inside I would still be little Lark, brittle bones and sharp feelings, certain that I would never be able to fulfill the duties before me. — Amy Harmon

Heart of stone will be shattered. — Toba Beta

The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry. — Laozi

Men are brittle, I reckon. They don't bend into new shapes. They get broken into them. Crushed into them. — Joe Abercrombie

Alec laughed, a short, brittle laugh. The day I'm wise is the day you're careful. — Cassandra Clare

But a thing can be easily breakable and still be a bastard to deal with. Ice is brittle, but try walking on half an inch of it. — M.R. Carey

His brittle, yellowed bones were splintered, crushed and shattered. — Steven Erikson

Believe me, there's nothing more brittle than human beauty. Encounter it. Savour it, by all means. Then watch how it turns to dust. — Alexander McCall Smith

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless. — Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig. — Alec Sulkin

Civilization ... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass. — Elizabeth Goudge

Grace is the ability to accept change. Be open and supple; the brittle break. — Ethan Hawke

The male ego is a curious thing. It's about the size of a small continent but it's extremely brittle. — Charles Stross

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear. — Mahatma Gandhi

Echoing off the tile walls, the sizzle-splash of the falling water sounded like the hissing of serpents and the brittle laughter of strange children. — Dean Koontz

God, this life is a cold, brittle thing. And yet it's all there is. — Jess Walter

We would make our heroes shallow ... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength. — Anne Rice

I'd rather have peanut brittle crumbs on my face than flies in my eyes, Havermeyer retorted. — Joseph Heller

Another brittle hug from Adele - it was like being embraced by a Ryvita — Jill Mansell

Their smiles were cracking. Glass is brittle. — Robert Bloch

I didn't bother to put shoes on. Finger-combing — Brittle Divinity Press

Along the brittle treacherous bright streets
of memory comes my heart,singing like
an idiot,whispering like a drunken man — E. E. Cummings

Broken things are powerful.Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest. — Eugene McCarthy

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There's something brittle in me that will break before it bends. — Mark Lawrence

I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle. — Dane Cook

While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend. — Jimmy Buffett

Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself. — John Shelby Spong

As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes. — Frederick Lenz

Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass. — Phyllis McGinley

Craftsmen and artisans created items that were brittle rumors compared with his father's iron facts. — Colson Whitehead

The pages were yellowed and had gone to brown at the edges. They were brittle, much like the memories the photos evoked. — Michael Connelly

Meditation ... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. — Tom Robbins

No matter how far back Ned searched in the brittle yellowed pages, always he found the gold yielding before the coal. — George R R Martin

I developed osteoporosis of the personality. My thought processes became brittle. — Mac O'Grady

And it is you, spirit
with will and energy, and virtue and purity
that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. — Charlotte Bronte

The brittle is easy to shatter. — Laozi

I knew what she was, and it made no difference at all. She was hard, as ruthless as she was beautiful, as brittle as bone china. — Clifton Adams

Sloane's laugh was brief and brittle, like ice breaking in an enchanted forest. — Seanan McGuire

Strength ebbed and flowed, but brittle would break. — Shelley Noble

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. — Cormac McCarthy

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. — John Burdett

Onward we climb. The upper slope is a crust of friable lava. It crunches like peanut brittle beneath our steps. — David Quammen