- 2738) When a window breaks or when glass breaks, it makes a clashing sound. When a door breaks, a tree breaks, you can hear a snap. When ice breaks, when hard candy breaks, you can hear a crunch. When bones break, you can hear the sound of pounding and snapping and the person screaming. But when the heart breaks, it does so silently when the most important thing in a world to a person disappears. Just like that, my heart broke. The most silent break in the world in which I know.