As big a fan as I am of Neil Gaiman, i'm reading his "Fragile Things" now the way I'd eat my favorite dish, savor it to the last morsel and eat it at a slow, painstaking pace. I was having fun reading his introductions on each of the short stories included in the book when I came towards the end of his introductions.
Mr. Neil Gaiman, please allow me to quote your book as thus:
"As I write this now, 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 the 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 remarkably difficult to kill."
Yes, hearts may easily break but it's strength lies on how it can move on after having dealt with a smattering blow...
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