“Some cities have fallen into ruin and some are built upon ruins but others contain their own ruins while still growing.”
“There are some bad people on the rise;they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.”
“I sometimes wonder whether century-old ruins look so beautiful to us beacause they were *meant* to ruin in a beautiful way. There was a Romantic facination with structural decay; wealthy gentry had custom-built ruins erected on their estates, their own little Country Churchyards to elegize in”
“We ruined ourselves-I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other.”
“I have become a gateTo the ruined city, dry, / Indestructible by fire.”
“I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.”