Looted Stores Quotes & Sayings

Jeevan found himself thinking about how human the city is, how human everything is. We bemoaned the impersonality of the modern world, but that was a lie, it seemed to him; it had never been impersonal at all. There had always been a massive delicate infrastructure of people, all of them working unnoticed around us, and when people stop going to work, the entire operation grinds to a halt. No one delivers fuel to the gas stations or the airports. Cars are stranded. Airplanes cannot fly. Trucks remain at their points of origin. Food never reaches the cities; grocery stores close. Businesses are locked and then looted. No one comes to work at the power plants or the substations, no one removes fallen trees from electrical lines. Jeevan was standing by the window when the lights went out. — Emily St. John Mandel

All of us have a shadow man dogging our steps that we cannot shake, no matter how hard we try. He reminds us at our best that we are not as good as we appear to be; he bites at our heel with guilt when we find ourselves behaving far beneath our own expectations. That is the human condition. That is why we yearn so for redemption. — Pamela Kay Hawkins

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. — Billie Holiday

It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes. — Richelle Mead

Create a dream and give it everything you have, you could be surprised just how much you are capable of achieving. — Sara Henderson

Be kind and never mind. — Debasish Mridha