Quotes on Shattered Glass

I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.