Broken People Quotes Novels & Stories

“Josh loved you both so much. He spent his last moments telling you that. Telling you to be happy.” “How can I be happy? How can I ever be happy again without him?” “I don’t know. But you have to try. For your son. For Josh’s memory.” “I can’t. I can’t do this without him.” “You can. You’re the strongest person I know.” “I’m not strong. I’m broken. I’ve always been broken.” I was sobbing so hard now I could barely speak. “And now I’m shattered. Completely shattered. And I don’t know how to put the pieces back together.”

“Because I remember what it is to be broken.” The child’s lip trembled. I felt the echo of many past failures. I thought of mistakes I couldn’t fix and people I couldn’t save. I touched his hair, rough and still wet from the morning wash. “You’ll survive this,” I said. “Stronger than you think. I… I won’t let it break you completely.”

Broken people understand the pain of broken people. "Thank you for sharing this hidden part of yours." He laid his head on my shoulder. "Broken people understand the pain of broken people..." I whispered as he nodded in acknowledgment.

"Listen to me carefully, Ivy. He did not destroy you. Look at yourself. You are sitting up. You are breathing. You are still here. You survived the worst thing a person can go through, and you are still standing." "But I am broken," I sobbed, covering my face again. "I look in the mirror and all I see is what they told me I am. Fat. Clumsy. A placeholder. A big mistake. What if I am too broken to fix, Ethan? What if I never feel normal again?"

“We’re not.” "Oh fuck yeah! We will never be broken. We broke people and never get broken!" And for the first time in a long time, Claire believed it.

The audience gets quiet, waiting to hear what I’m going to say. “This poem is called Unapologetically Me. We go through different things in life that cause us pain. We have people in our lives, who make it their mission to break us or destroy us, but we are stronger than that. So, I dedicate this to all of us who have ever been through heartache and survived.” Unapologetically Me By Lotta Patterson © 2021 You tried to break me, But I’m unbreakable. You tried to shake me,

"You remind me of something." "What?" She smirked. "You know what they say? Two broken people either make each other or break each other beyond repair." We both burst out laughing. Make, huh?

Something else. Something I don’t have a name for yet. Something I’m not ready to name. But for now… Breakfast is enough.

she added. Broken, but learning from their failures.

“You survived it. That’s what matters.” “But what if I’m broken now?” I whisper. “What if all the soft parts of me are gone? What if I’m too scared to let someone love me again? What if you wake up one day and realize you deserve someone whole?” He stares at me like I’ve just said the dumbest thing in the world. “Viola,” he murmurs. “You’re not broken.” I shake my head, not believing him. “You say that now—” “No,” he cuts in, gently but firmly. “Listen to me. You’re not broken. You’re brave. You’re still here. Still standing. You wrote through your pain. You pulled yourself out of something people spend decades trapped in. You didn’t disappear—you fought your way back.”