Quote by Barry Eisler

“To look out the window, it might be the 1980s still, the height of the heroin plague, the police doing nothing, the politicians doing…

— Paul Murray

“Everyone was oblivious to the seething hatred and anger that churned in other parts of the city — beneath the surface like an undiscovered…

— Michael Connelly

“other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs.”

— J.D. Vance

“When the city burns down and people are shot dead, people think of a riot.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“Things have changed               through the decades, Streets filled with ashtrays,               and cellphones                             chirping forty feet               from the entrances.”

— Kenyatta García

“Ugliness didn't have a zip code. Crime happened everywhere.”

— Irene Hannon

“I remember watching rioters in Panama, for example, smashing shop windows, allegedly in the name of freedom and democracy, but laughing as they did…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“The wind blowing through the cracks in the walls was fitting for this isolated and lonely place.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“Riots happen because rationale is eclipsed by revenge.”

— Vinita Kinra

“The traffic broke and the skyscrapers of Downtown reared up ahead, towering monoliths of steel and glass. The buildings were alive, ready to swallow…

— Loren Niva

“the houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritic hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The city had the air and movement of hysteria, and the citizens were crying, in every accent of anger and alarm, that the new…

— Henry Adams