Crumbling Quotes

“She could hear her hair growing. It sounded like something crumbling. A burnt thing crumbling. Coal. Toast. Moths crisped on a light bulb. She remembered reading somewhere that even after people died, their hair and nails kept growing. Like starlight, travelling through the universe long after the stars themselves had died. Like cities. Fizzy, effervescent, simulating the illusion of life while the planet they had plundered died around them.”

“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional “love forever”- revelation has become a crumbling “love never, ever again”- crack-up. There is no route back to a paradise lost, when the bonds of trust have, irrevocably, been blasted. ("Another empty room")”

“You are strong, tempered like steel in the fire and by the blows of the hammer of life. Nothing will break you again, only make you stronger and more whole. Perfection is the pride of those who have not lived, who know not these things in their arrogance. They remain the same - raw and without form. The hammer never touches them, and they lie on the shelf, gathering dust, slowly tarnishing and fading and crumbling. the blows of the hammer in the fire refine us into bright shining glory for the roles we play in life - until we are one with the anvil, becoming immune to the hammer's little knocks, and smile at it.”

“Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.”

“My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose.”

“She was certain this trip would be a landslide of regret, anger and resentment, crumbling around a day of sadness.”

“Is not most talkingA crazed defense of a crumbling fort?I thought we came hereTo surrender in Silence.”

“A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down.”

“I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest.”