And every day, fractures grow larger, threatening to shatter my life into fragments.

There was no protocol for shattering a parent's life.

A particularly malignant cancer was about to shatter Helen's life.

Ms. Barrett said she had no hatred for the person who so shattered her life.

That he could shatter her life into tiny little bits and then pick up a piece when the fancy took him?

Then came Nov. 27, the day that shattered his life.

A god's voice had once shattered my whole life.

His return, however, will completely shatter the family's confining life.

A television newscaster is obsessed with the man who shattered her late husband's life.

"Well, he certainly got over having his life shattered quickly."