We're more valuable broken.

“I'll serve something black. Bean soup, licorice, coffee. It'll be very grim, I …”

“If God exists, He is there, in the small, cast-off pieces, rough and random and…”

“Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive.…”

“She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was cre…”