Bombs Quote by Paul Cornell

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

— steinbeck

“More than anything, one is struck by the light. Light everywhere. Brightness everywhere. Everywhere, the sun. Just yesterday, an autumnal London was drenched in…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

“Shouldn’t a catastrophe like this be met with rain? An overcast sky? It didn’t seem right that things were so quiet, so calm, the…

— wildbow

“And marbled clouds go scudding by The many-steepled London sky.”

— John Betjeman

“Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.”

— Vinita Kinra

“Everywhere were metastasizing telephone lines, riots of electric wires, laundry hanging from prefabricated apartment windows like tears from idiot eyes.”

— Barry Eisler

Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by…

— Peter Ackroyd

“British rain was rarely that simple. For days on end, instead of falling, it simply hung around in the air like a wife waiting…

— Ruth Downie

“London, London, London town, You can toughen up or get thrown around.”

— Kano

“London is where people go in order to come back from it sadder and wiser.”

— Martin Amis

“One thing that has remained constant, across four centuries, has been the desire for a British person to fill a silence with talk of…

— Matt Haig

“When the city burns down and people are shot dead, people think of a riot.”

— Allan Dare Pearce