Jenna Wortham Quotes

Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.

A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

Every war is a national misfortune.

There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.

Yes, horoscopes still persist in popular newspapers, but they are there only for the severely scientifically challenged, or for entertainment; the idea that the stars determine our fate has lost all intellectual currency.

It was the first time I was looking, really, right after the storm, that I saw maybe the amount of devastation that had happened in the Lower Ninth Ward. Where my friends lived, which was about six blocks from where the industrial canal was, houses was smashed into houses, and there were, like, four houses smashed together.

In 1874, Mary Fraser accompanied her husband Hugh to Hong Kong, arriving hours after a typhoon had wrecked the island. Some 10,000 boat families had drowned in the harbour. There was no way to avoid the bloated bodies, and when Mary disembarked, she felt her foot land on something soft.

At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.

Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.

We imagine 'the end' as a world-devastating event, but every time there's a terrible earthquake, a tsunami, an outbreak of disease - that's apocalyptic, on a micro-scale.

In many cultures, a total eclipse of the Sun predicts cataclysms and bad events.

I have a little hope that the nuclear holocaust doesn't happen.

My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.

Could this be the Apocalypse ?

It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t live to see the last days. The things burning and people living in cellars. Violet. The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.

In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed.

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

We will have to wait a little longer to see if Armageddon has arrived.