Quote by Hugh Howey

“I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.”

— H.G. Wells

“Imagine this coming down,” I say out loud. I believe it’s the mammal in me that has this thought, the mammal that can remember…

— Hugh Howey

“One of the towers has fallen. When it's our turn to leave, it's like something in me is finally willing to listen, and suddenly…

— David Levithan

“An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those compelled against…

— Declan Burke

“We're not falling to the ground in an instant like the towers did, but it's like the most important parts of us are coming…

— Wendy Mills

“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock them down.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“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

“In a way, though, the boy was right. Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head,…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“We have here very high towers; a man who should fall from one would be dead before he touched the pavement; when it shall…

— Victor Hugo

“We built walls, and built them high. The walls would keep the gentiles and their terrifying world far away. The walls would protect us…

— Eishes Chayil

“What strange and thoughtless creatures we were, back in those days. We would go up to the rooftops to smoke, Wurth and I; and…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

“It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want…

— Peter Rock