Total and complete silence surrounded us as my world crumbled.

What did things matter, when your whole world was breaking up and crumbling about you?

"It felt like my whole world was crumbling," she said.

But even as they do, the world around them is crumbling.

The whole world may be crumbling around me but I am not thinking about any of that.

It came at a moment when another huge world was crumbling on my hands.

Here, with him, it was enough, even if the world crumbled to dust around them.

The world, thought Wilson that night, was crumbling around her no matter how hard she tried.

No six-year-old could be expected to hold himself together when his whole world was crumbling around him.

They share a quiet moment as the world crumbles around them.