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Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
She fought the urge to scream, feeling desperately like she needed to run, that she needed to go as far away from Manhattan as possible and never even give it so much as a backwards glance, but she was frozen to the spot like a wind-up toy that had finally given out. "This city is falling apart!" she shouted in cheerful trauma, her voice shaky and muddled by anxious, messy laughter as it resounded in her head. In a coping sort of euphoria she skipped lithely through the dust and debris as though it were falling snow on a winter day.
book-quote new-york-city september-11-attacks trauma
Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
The Twin Towers stood out like an enormous number 11 looming over New York City, a familiar icon coupled with the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State building and the Statue of Liberty. Those towers were like the soul of lower Manhattan, alive in their own right.
book-quote manhattan twin-towers world-trade-center
Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
People don't look like people anymore after they've fallen from over a hundred floors above the ground.
book-quote people september-11-attacks disaster
Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
Red rain, white-striped towers and a clear blue sky, it was like America's flag exploded everywhere that day.
book-quote patriotism manhattan september-11-attacks
Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
When she thought of New York City now, the place where she'd lived for most of her life, the only home she'd ever really known, she realized the city was like a person who now oftentimes struggled to stand proud because both its legs had collapsed in a sea of dust, fire and scattered office papers.
book-quote new-york-city terrorism september-11th
Rebecca McNutt _ Bittersweet Symphony
When she thought of New York City now, the place where she'd lived for most of her life, the only home she'd ever really known, she realized the city was like a person who now oftentimes struggled to stand proud because both its legs had collapsed in a sea of dust, fire and scattered office papers."
book-quote new-york-city terrorism september-11th