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Quotes About Unraveling

I stretched out my hand, adrenaline and pain giving me plenty of fuel for the magic, and called, 'Ventas servitas!' Wind leapt out in a sudden spurt, seizing the Unraveling and tearing it from Aurora's fingers, sending it spinning through the air toward me. I caught it, stuck my tongue out at Aurora, yelled, 'Meep, meep!' and ran like hell.
~ Jim Butcher
The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold.
~ Jim Butcher
The center was not holding.
~ Joan Didion
People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
~ Jodi Picoult
Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...
~ Unknown
To respect everything one is supposed to respect; to protest nothing; never to be inconvenienced by self-distrust; never to be enmeshed in obsession, tortured by incapacity, poisoned by resentment, driven by anger . . . life just unraveling for the Swede like a fluffy ball of yarn.
~ Philip Roth
When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting. In fact, I've even read that knitting can lower stress more effectively than meditation.
~ Debbie Macomber
undid my knitting. All those little knots that you make one after another, row by row, to knit a sock, I undid them. It's easy. Take the needles out, a little tug and they just fall apart. One after another, row by row. I undid the extra heel and then I just kept going. The foot, the first heel, the ribbing of the leg. All those loops unraveling themselves as you pull the wool. Then there was nothing left to unravel, only a pile of crinkled blue wool in my lap.
~ Diane Setterfield
Is there a fungus that speaks to you? I'm serious. People hear things. They hear God. He meant it. He was serious. He wanted to mean it, to hear anything the man might say, the whole shapeless narrative of his unraveling.
~ Don DeLillo
Accumulated knots in the fabric of our body, previously undetected, begin to reveal themselves as we open.
~ Jack Kornfield
And in unraveling the complex we should always be careful not to overlook the obvious. John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.
~ Marcel Proust
You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Extras
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be.
~ Joni Mitchell
Depression is kind of quantum physics of thought and emotion. It reveals what is normally hidden. It unravels you
~ Matt Haig
they talked day and night, as though inside them an endless scroll of paper were unraveling out through the mouth.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Que o amor acontece para a gente desacontecer.
~ Mia Couto
Whoever he said he was, thought Marsh, he was not from the immigration department, and the web that he was convinced Walsh had been weaving was beginning to unravel with disastrous and dangerous consequences.
~ Unknown
Good night, Senator,' I say, and he looks at me as if he's in the presence of someone unraveling, which he may be.
~ Michael Paterniti
You cannot fight entropy.
~ Peter F. Hamilton