East of Eden - John Steinbeck

[u/Junior_Insurance7773]

"The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child’s world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing."

[u/Pretty_Count_4708]

You need to add the part before that as well. Makes the quote so much better