" She and her boyfriend went out into the garden, sat on the long grass, and found that the warm, beautiful summer night was “made more beautiful than ever by the red glow from the East, where the docks were burning.” She fixed the scene in her mind, knowing it was historic, and “I wasn’t frightened any more, it was amazing. . . . The searchlights were beautiful, it’s like watching the end of the world as they swoop from one end of the sky to the other. "

― Rebecca Solnit , A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster