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The broken pieces still insisting they once belonged to something whole.
means Small parts broken off from a larger whole, or things left incomplete and disconnected.
from From Latin fragmentum, a piece broken off, rooted in frangere, to break — the same shattering verb hiding inside fragile and fracture.
Lost literatureMost ancient Greek poetry survives only as fragments.
MemoryThe brain stores recollections as fragments, not whole films.
GrammarA sentence fragment is a thought that quit early.