When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.
“We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.”
“There came to port last Sunday night the queerest little craft, without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked - and laughed. It seemed so curious that she should cross the unknown water, and moor herself within my room - my daughter! O my daughter!”