The best Quotes from Dancing on Broken Glass

They say the first year after a major loss is the hardest. That’s an understatement; loss is its own brand of insanity and no relief from it. There are no shortcuts and the only way through grief is through it. You just have to get up every day and wait to go to bed every night, then wake up and do it all over again.

Our bodies did the work but it was our souls that were conjoined.

I really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.

I'm sure that sounds odd, but looking at me and seeing me are two very different things.

Lucy, every marriage is a dance; complicated at times, lovely at times, most the time very uneventful. But with Mickey, there will be times when your dance will be on broken glass. There will be pain. And you will either flee that pain or hold tighter and dance through it to the next smooth place.

Word to the wise writer: never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them... they sneak off with stuff.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.

When you lose everything, that's when you're finally free.

We're not defined by what we los. We're defined by what we survive.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up!

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

You mean well, but leave me be
Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand.

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

A happy marriage doesn't mean you have a perfect spouse or a perfect marriage. It simply means you've chosen to look beyond the imperfections in both.

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her, and one for them together.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.