If he weren't holding her together, she would fly apart into a million little pieces.

Do you know how to design a closed society that'd last so long without flying apart?

For an instant her face seemed about to fly apart.

If you don't, she thought, you're going to fly apart in a million pieces.

So if you can have a gas at all, why doesn't the solid just fly apart?

They spoke to him, but the words flew apart in pieces.

In a second I was going to fly apart into a thousand pieces.

Unless because of the connection Michael's body flew apart, too.

If they kicked him, he could fly apart and reform some other way.

Silence for a moment, then the big dry hands flew apart.