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Like more tired than usual. Hard and crumbling at the edges. — Rainbow Rowell

Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look. — Christine Pelosi

If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading 'The Creature from Jekyll Island' by G. Edward Griffin. — Robert Kiyosaki

A Winterian wielding an Autumnian weapon, using Cordellan allegiance to bring Spring crumbling down. — Sara Raasch

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are ... so make up your own rules. — Neil Gaiman

Concrete can rot. It turns green and black before crumbling away.
Maybe only people from Congo know that. — Eliot Schrefer

I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time. — Lee Bermejo

If the house is crooked and crumbling, and the land on which it sits uneven, is it possible to make anything lie straight? — Katherine Boo

The monster was crumbling, shrinking, revealing a man. Only a man. A traitor and a murderer certainly, but that made him less not more. — Jonathan Renshaw

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin. — Mahatma Gandhi

Kulp saw something crumbling into ruins behind the lad's light-blue eyes. — Steven Erikson

Her mind was a press of formless questions, mingling and crumbling limply away. — Samuel Beckett

When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle
atop some crumbling building,
spring to life
a resuscitated
angel. — Saul Williams

First rule of life: the woman always goes first. Through doors, into orgasm, and in this case, crumbling to the pressure in a battle of wills. "Fuck — Max Monroe

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke

On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world. — P. E. Cleator

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere. — John Fiske

Gary's eyes narrowed. "I'm pretty sure I don't like you."
"My world is crumbling," Ryan said. I might have laughed. Because sass. — T.J. Klune

We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work. — Robert Reich

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions. — Edith Wharton

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away. — Malik Bendjelloul

I wasn't Dex Foray. I was just this emotion that was crumbling to the floor, holding onto the doorway like it was the last thread of my humanity. — Karina Halle

I wanted someone above me in the chain of life. I didn't want to be alone, a single blue egg in a crumbling nest. — Kathy Hepinstall

Startled pigeons filled the old, shadowy rooms and crumbling hallways with their soft thunder. — Stephen King

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely. — Lionel Blue

I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship], — Kristin Hannah

I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling. — Colleen Hoover

Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied. — Gregory Galloway

There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man. — Groucho Marx

that's crumbling back into — Ayn Rand

Transfixed beneath the rays of a jaundiced star, he huddled against the crumbling parapet, fighting an evil the priests assumed long vanquished. — Grace Draven

No matter where I look, my walls are crumbling, and this damned girl keeps presenting me with the most dangerous element of all.
Hope. — Lauren Layne

Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say. — J.K. Rowling

It's very difficult to see your heroes crumbling before you. — Andaleeb Wajid

My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose. — Steph Campbell

The ghost's eyes clouded for a moment, by memory or regret. "Past speaks to the future," she said. "The present is already crumbling. — Ekaterina Sedia

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily — Marcus Aurelius

Your past is your foundation, and if it's crumbling then you've got nothing left to build on. — C.M. Stunich

standing on a cliff
in a silent blizzard
crumbling
and dreaming of kaleidoscopes
all the pieces always fit — Chris Wind

I am crumbling in sync with old Hackney. — Iain Sinclair

Plover's words were like dried flowers, stiff and crumbling, crushed flat between pages, when we'd had the living, blooming blossoms all around — Lev Grossman

Ray Bradbury's entire oeuvre exemplifies the crumbling of SCIENCE FICTION into the open interplay of science fiction, fantasy and horror. — Hal Duncan

Marriage was like a stale brownie - started crumbling apart the minute we got hitched. — Heather Day Gilbert

The crumbling infrastructure turned time back further than any presidential mandate. — Anthony Marra

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. — Haruki Murakami

You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us. — Macklemore

Eternity! How know we but we stand
On the precipitous and crumbling verge
Of Time e'en now, Eternity below? — Abraham Coles

The only thing which existed was the here and now, future and past crumbling at our sides. — Paula Becka

Tell me you aren't crying. My whole image of you as a bad-ass warrior is crumbling. — Heather R. Blair

Edith said that any glass that could withstand such a beating without crumbling was something to be celebrated. — Karen White

In many ways, the crumbling of the institution of marriage is the real 'war on women.' Marriage is the civilizing influence for men and for families. — Tim Huelskamp

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it — Julie Orringer

The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath. — J. K. Bharavi

An amazing find happens after using multispectral imaging in a crumbling literary treasure blackened by fire — Unknown

Bricks are crumbling in places, and the front door is so swollen you have to push hard to get in — Sandra Cisneros

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces — L.M. Montgomery

I'm running as if the force of the wind whipping around my body will be enough to keep all the pieces of me from crumbling. — Beth Revis

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay. — Philip James Bailey

Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses. — Abdulrazak Gurnah

She was the rock in a world that was crumbling — Abbi Glines

I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game. — Tyson Chandler

My people are crumbling and dying and starving, and you're blessing blessed people and serving the saved. — Jen Hatmaker

[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation. — Joe Lieberman

When your world is in pieces, you can choose to see it as crumbling or building. Your attitude, resilience and determination mark the difference. — Rita Zahara

I am so tired. I feel myself drifting, away, a little by little. I am overcome by the sensation that I am crumbling, parts of my being drifting away. — Haruki Murakami