Shoeboxes Rusting Quote by Ernest Cline

“I walk through the glass doors and into the lobby, which is floor-to-ceiling glass and steel. This fascinates me to no end, because buildings…

— Fanny Merkin

“Beneath the ash trees on Johnson Street, just east of campus, Hourglass Vintage stood in a weathered brick building, wedged between a fair-trade coffee…

— Susan Gloss

“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

“Reflected in “The Bean,” the city exists within the Rust Belt as a postmodern “funhouse” of the twentieth century.”

— Martha Bayne

“fifty-story skyscrapers stood side by side with older ten-story buildings like fathers and sons at the urinal together.”

— Yahtzee Croshaw

“And here he is, letting the massive steel street door click shut behind him, standing at the top of the three iron steps that…

— Michael Cunningham

“I arrive at the Gray Holdings headquarters in downtown Seattle two hours later. The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into…

— Andrew Shaffer

“The city was a real city, shifty and sexual. I was lightly jostled by small herds of flushed young sailors looking for action on…

— Patti Smith

“They spotted another ruin in the late afternoon, this one just a huge, partial circle of metal standing on its side, mounted in a…

— Martha Wells

“The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old, but more importantly, trodden upon.”

— Martin Hopkins

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent…

— Donna Tartt

“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