I do like this paragraph

For a minute everything felt as though it was simmering in chaos, bathed in the white light of sound, baked in the hot breath of fear. She had reached a point beyond return; she could never even consider going back to what once was, what she once was. She looked at all the points of entry and exit: the doors, the windows, the single skylight in the living room. That was part of what sold them on this place, the light, that natural inhalation and exhalation.