He is all-dependent on it, and it is a small and breakable thing.

Every loose and breakable thing had been ground to splinters as though by iron slugs in a whirling cylinder.

So our immune systems are basically really, really bored 5-year-old boys standing in rooms full of breakable things, and they have baseball bats.

"When you played with a woman's name," she said, "you played with the most fragile, the most delicate and easily breakable thing there is.