This is the language of the world before-a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair-before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust. (Lauren Oliver)

This is the language of the world before-a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair-before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.

Lauren Oliver

Related topics

chaos confusion dust happiness language world blitz hearts

Related quotes

Dreams, books, are each a world and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. View quote
William Wordsworth
Should the whole frame of Nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. View quote
Joseph Addison
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. View quote
Eisaku Sato
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world. View quote
Nhat Hanh