As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.
No relationships are perfect. When they develop, there are things that have happened before in your life that you maybe don't discuss. And there are always fault lines within every relationship. I believe it doesn't take too much pressure to be placed on those fault lines for them to start cracking apart.
Well, I grew up in the Bay Area, so I've been in earthquakes before.
Politics also reflects the fault lines in our society, and the fact is that it is not very easy for any marginalised group to come forward in any domain.
Only fools, liars, and charlatans predict earthquakes
Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.
I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout of the bad thing, when people are already damaged. I'm less interested in seeing people when they're fine and following their journey to becoming damaged.
Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder.
Margo says, "I know what she's talking about. The something deeper and more secret. It's like cracks inside of you. Like there are these fault lines where things don't meet up right.
It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.
Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.
I understood what triggered her earthquakes, most of them.
Authenticity does matter, but only as it serves the novel's more traditional literary demands: that the fault lines be drawn where the internal life and the larger world meet.
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
