Hawk Quote by Edward Conlon

“I stop in my tracks to look up, completely disrupting the flow of tourist traffic. It’s directly in front of me, in all its…

— Kristin Rae

“The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I…

— Michael Montoure

“Lines of light ran up towering structures, fading into the stars. The world felt vast, as if anything could get lost in it.”

— Cory Michael Sheldon

“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

“and it was there, standing on the edge of a village playing field, that I gratefully stepped into novicehood again, as if I had…

— Helen Macdonald

“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.”

— Joseph Roth

“Over the diversely high rooftops the light lets its hands slip away until, in the unity of those same rooftops, the inner shadow of…

— Fernando Pessoa

“If you focus your eyes towards the horizon, everything and everyone walking in front of you becomes a blurry mass. That's what everyone else…

— Cristina Martin

“Arched pillars held up a very high ceiling that echoed with the sounds of footsteps as everyone bustled about their business. They all seemed…

— Audrey Mackaman

“The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into the sky like a glass and steel erection.”

— Andrew Shaffer

“The tower was battered, a relic of a distant past. Yet there was a dignity to it, a grace that belied the pockmarked walls…

— Paul Fraser Collard

“That night, though I was weary with the day, I took to the roof again… My fingertips rested lightly on the wooden rail. I…

— Sena Jeter Naslund