Best 3 quotes in «end of an era quotes» category

...she had lost just too much control, time was rushing all around her, these were rapids, and as far ahead as she could see it looked like Brock's stretch of the river, another stage, like sex, children, surgery, further into adulthood perilous and real, into the secret that life is soldiering, that soldiering includes death, those those soldiered for, not yet and often never in on the secret, are always, at every age, children.

The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities.

this midnight my desire will see, shadowed among the embers, furled in flame, the splendor and the sadness of the world