Quotes About Promises That Are Broken Novels & Stories

Marcella’s pov Promises. What are they? Words spoken to soothe the heart. Words meant to bind two souls together. Words meant to boost confidence and trust in someone. But my mother had always had a particular view about promises. When I was a child, she would always tell me, “Promises are mere words. They are meant to be broken. That’s why it’s best to build walls around your heart so it doesn’t ache when it fails. They only stand if you make them stand and you have to force it to.”

The tablet in her hand hit the ground with a smash that resounded multiple times in her brain. "Tell. Me, Liam. That you knew you broke the promises." She said. "I know." "Then give me a reason why. At least, let me know why? It can't be Stella, no matter what, it cannot just be Stella. I would never have left if Jade and Jace didn't come into the picture because I know it could never be Stella. Isn't it?" She asked, her eyes asking him.

I hadn't been looking at the camera but away and I liked the way the moon lit up just the right features. Below my picture, I began to type and felt my heart begin to pour out. "When I told you don't tonight I lied about what I meant. I meant don't leave, don't go fuck some other girl, don't go breaking my heart, don't give me a reason to turn my back, don't make promises you can't keep, don't lie to me..." Sighing I erased all of that and just hit send, sometimes things were better left unsaid.

"I've already given her my word." "Can't you just change your mind?" "Vicky, you should know that we should always keep our promises." "But there are bound to be times when one must break their promises." There would always be accidents, and there would come a time when a person had to break their promise. "That's right." A dazed look appeared in his eyes. "Which is why we must fulfill the promises to the best of our abilities." Vicky was not surprised or upset by his answer and simply asked, "And you have to go that day?"

I watched families and couples laughing and talking in the seats around me, their easy camaraderie a painful reminder of what I had lost. Every mile that passed was a physical ache, a pulling sensation that tugged me back toward him, back toward the boy who had broken my heart. I replayed our last conversation over and over in my mind, his desperate pleas, his raw, vulnerable promises. *“I promise I’ll fight for you. I promise I’ll fight for us.”* The words were a comforting balm on the raw, open wound of my heart, but they were also a heavy burden. A promise was a fragile thing, easily broken. And I wasn’t sure how many more pieces my heart could handle.

"I... Promise," "I'm happy that this time you'll not gonna break your promise," Sebastian announced. Breaking their sacred promise."I'm hoping that you'll not gonna break it this time," "Hey, we're done talking about this right," I said and looked at him, my eyes are giving him a warning. Thomas is with us for pity's sake.

He blurted out, confused abd utterly perturbed. "Because you never keep to your promises." She stated firmly. "I told you before didn't I? I told you that promises as sacred and can never be broken but you always break them right after you make them to me, so I think that it will be of our best interest if you don't make any promises concerning this matter." "Serenity?" Andre called softly, willing her to look at him. "I promise and this time, I won't break them."

You promised" "He doesn't deserve you, princess. Let him go" "I can't. I love him and we promised to be together forever" "Promises are meant to be broken, Princess." "But..... But if I let him go then I'll be all alone." "You've never been alone Princess. I'm here" "But I can't even see you" "That is because you don't want to see me. Open your eyes and look at me. Really look"

She is still a kid, so she definitely does not know anything about life. "Daddy always gets us something whenever he promises us... Uncle Max always does whatever he promised us to do, and the ones he never promised us, he never did them. So, I think promise is a strong thing that validates things," She shrugs, and I slowly nod my head. "So, do you mean your daddy never goes back on his words?" I ask her for some reason I do not understand. "Yes... He has never gone back on his words," She replies to me, and I nod my head. I don't know why I'm suddenly scared, but something keeps telling me that something is wrong somewhere, although I can't picture what exactly it is.

“Promises are meant to be broken? Tsk! That’s a lie, for promises are a sacred word to be broken by anyone. Promises are not meant to be broken. They are meant to be fulfilled.” He is the one who thought me that, but then the same person that’s breaking it and even without blinking. Proving somehow to me that promises are meant to be broken. To the day that he held his hand to me and taught me to believe that everything is possible. My heart and my mind bare those hope and faith. Yet, this time, at this very moment, everything is screaming and right in front of my face that it is all nothing a piece of lie and garbage. “To the promises, I gave none of those are true.”