When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a crashing sound. When a window shatters, a table breaks, or a picture fall of the wall, it makes noise. But as for your heart, when that breaks, it's completely silent... and you almost wish there was a noise to distract you from the pain.
Interpretation
The pain of a broken heart is silent and deeply profound, unlike the physical sounds of breaking objects.
This quote reflects on the emotional pain of heartbreak, contrasting it with the physical sounds associated with broken objects. Ahern suggests that while tangible items make noise when they break, the anguish of a broken heart is often quiet and isolating, leading one to yearn for some external distraction from such deep sorrow.
In practice
In a support group for friends experiencing heartbreak.
life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.
Texting has definitely improved the communication between the deaf and hearing communities, but it shouldn't be... a substitute for learning the language to really connect with someone, especially someone you want to date or have a relationship with.
People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.
Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.
You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.
For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves.
Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.
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