“It was beyond desolate: it was where desolation goes to be by itself.”
“For where thou art, there is the world itself,With every several pleasure in the world,And where thou art not, desolation.”
“Anna watched as Abel walked across the empty schoolyard, she wondered whether there was a limit to desolation or whether it grew endlessly, infinitely. Desolation with a hundred faces and more, desolation of a hundred different kinds and more, like the color blue.”
“There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.”
“Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.”
“They make a desolation and call it peace.”