{"quotes":[{"text":"Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is “Worship us or we perish.” A dethroned monarch may retain some of his human dignity while driving a taxi for a living. But a god without his thunderbolt is a poor object.","author":"Chapman Cohen","tags":["atheism","fragility","gods","petty","reason","science","theism"],"id":22380,"author_id":"Chapman+Cohen"},{"text":"Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["ability","art","artist","book","books","change","creative","creativity","each-other","fiction","fragile","fragility","genre","inspiration","inspirational","joy","joy-of-reading","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letter","letters","life","literature","lives","non-fiction","poem","poet","poetry","power","quote","read","reader","reading","transcend","transform","word","words","write","writer","writing"],"id":80946,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["bonfires","candle","deadly","destruction","embryonic","fire","flames","fragility","illuminate","kings","life","light","potency","potential","power","rampage","seeds","warmth"],"id":93872,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["fragile","fragility","gentle","gentleness","gently","grace","grace","graceful","gracefulness","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","respect","respectful","treat","truth"],"id":107917,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["ability","actions","awareness","careful","caution","change","choice","choices","fragility","meaning","others","people","preservation","protection","pursuits","responsiblity","significance","significant","world"],"id":196673,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["fragility","intimacy","love"],"id":249726,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"In this busy modernized age, it's easy to be blind to the light all around us. You see, there truly are real angels living among us that look just like you and I. If you pay attention, you can spot one because they're quite easy to find. They're the souls with the eternally deep eyes that always act like something is broken inside, but fail to realize it's just their wings.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["angels","beauty","eyes","fragility","quotes","souls","suzy-kassem"],"id":259435,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["dreams","fragility"],"id":260930,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness, but happiness with an edge, a sense of joy that was all the more meaningful because it was so fleeting.","author":"Chelsey Philpot","tags":["feeling","fragility","happiness","moments","mood"],"id":269813,"author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot"},{"text":"Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.' - Jocelyn.","author":"Cassandra Clare","tags":["beauty","fragile","fragility","vulnerability","vulnerable"],"id":338231,"author_id":"Cassandra+Clare"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}