Quote by Amanda Bouchet

“Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.”

— Abdulrazak Gurnah

“Sometimes life will tear your house apart so you can see the cracks in the foundation.”

— Vanessa Ooms

“the house picked up again its long, slow project of decay.”

— Diane Setterfield

“It's always quicker and easier to tear things down than it is to build them back up again.”

— Peter F. Hamilton

“Perhaps everyone finds him or herself a time or two sifting through the rubble and ruins of a devastated life, wondering whether or not…

— Jim Palmer

“There crumbles my wall. God help me. And I start rebuilding it again”

— D.S. Wrights

“It will take time to clear away the wreck. Though old buildings will eventually be replaced by finer ones, the new structures will take…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“Maybe, when there's no repairing what we've wrecked and we have to navigate around the sharp, broken parts of our own destruction, that's when…

— Alexis Bass

“We have to build our lives out of what materials we have. It's as though we were given a heap of blocks and told…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“Life’s had to break you down so you could be rebuilt better.”

— Robin S. Sharma

“No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.”

— Anna Kamienska

“I’d always kept an eye on the house. I don’t mean doing repairs, for as the house didn’t belong to me that was not…

— Aminatta Forna