There is a crack in everything

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

There is a crack in everything God has made

May thy knife chip and shatter.

If we throw a crystal to the floor, it breaks; but not into hap-hazard pieces. It comes apart along its lines of cleavage into fragments whose boundaries, thought they were invisible, were predetermined by the crystal's structure. Mental paitents are split and broken structures of this same kind.... They have turned away from external reality, but for that very reason they know more about internal, physical reality...

Grief shatters. If you let yourself shatter and then you put yourself back together, piece by piece, you wake up one day and realize that you have been completely reassembled.

Place something good in front of me, and I'll smash it to pieces.

What they had between them was still as fragile as a flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

Nothing breaks more quickly than corroded steel.

People break, I guess. Everyone.

The bad new is, what was shattered may never be possible to rebuild. The good new is, what you make in its place will be better than what was destroyed.

Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.