Quotes About Unraveling

First the girl, then the detective, now the wolf. The town was starting to unravel.

En qué desorden vivíamos, cuántos fragmentos de nosotros mismos salían volando como si vivir fuese estallar en esquirlas.

She had fallen into particles over the course of a single evening.

I spiraled slowly down the steps, the soft way a milkweed seed sometimes twirls to earth. I wanted time for any vague thought to come to mind that mind should want. No new ones came, but the pace seemed a meditative winding, and what I was winding was like yarn on an oblong skein, softly enfolding a quiet center that was myself.

As though a sweater had a snag and he pulled at it, or she did, and one by one the stitches came undone until it was a pile of yarn at their feet.

However, all of these "progressive" goals now require the unraveling of Western hegemony. Western civilization, once the driving force of human progress, is now treated as its greatest obstacle.

i want to implode— i want to (un)become

I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.

Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book.

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.

Maybe she was really good at improv. I couldn't be certain she was nineteen or that her name really was Nora Halliday. Maybe she was like one of those sweaters with an innocent little thread hanging off of it: One pull, the whole thing unraveled.

Identity exists where the Complication and Unravelling are the same.

Grace had so many complexities, so many layers and feelings, and thoughts ... he would happily spend his life trying to unwrap her. Thinking about it, he tore a strip off the hem of her gown. 'What on earth are you going to do with that?' Without answering, he put a knee forward onto the bed, making certain he knew precisely where she was. The last thing he wanted was to land on her like a felled tree.

He doesn't need to be fixed," Lockie said. "You can't look at it that way. It's a process of discovery, of letting Kyffhäuser develop into the athlete he wants to be and can be. It's nothing that can be rushed. He got to this point because he was pushed every step of the way. That training has to be undone for him before he can make progress.

Dysfunctional systems will fall under their own weight. Let them.

When the norms that made the old institutions useful began to unwind, and the leaders abandoned their posts, the Roosevelt Republic that had reigned for almost half a century came undone. The void was filled by the default force in American life, organized money.

It was as though their life, thought Frances, were being mercilessly spooled back on to a reel; or as if, one by one, the stitches that had fastened them together were being unpicked.

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.

He was born crazy...He's been losing ground ever since.

MI5 had once worried Churchill might go "off the deep end" if he knew too much about espionage matters. It can only be imagined how far off the deep end he would have plunged had he learned not only that the Double Cross system was in danger of unraveling but that the invasion itself was in jeopardy.

Reagan's defense buildup and SDI, so ridiculed at the time, pressed Gorbachev, while his economy was collapsing, to make arms deals and improve relations with the West, which contributed to the unraveling of his empire.

I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.

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