Bubonic plague Quote by Lauren Beukes

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

— J.D. Vance

“Having fled to the New World, but with the scars of the Old World still etched in their skin, they had burned casks of…

— Thomas Olde Heuvelt

“For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and the solitary…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice…

— Louise Bogan

“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

“The seed of an urban legend finding fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Colored people don’t like Little Black Sambo. Burn it. White people don’t feel good about Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Burn it. Someone’s written a book…

— Ray Bradbury

“There was soot and orphans everywhere, and gaslit cobbled streets full of fog and sinister gentlemen out for a night of illicit murder. It…

— Gideon Defoe

“Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of Southern landscapes where even if they were the…

— Maya Angelou

“Traditional homes of our old world have been abandoned, windows shattered, roofs collapsing, red and green and blue paint scrubbed into muted shades to…

— Tahereh Mafi

“This dirty, damp patch of grass—was this really the setting of those years of my childhood, so radiant and winged in my memory? This…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“The sharp scents made my throat ache. I had been up such hillsides before, and smelled these same spring scents. But then the pine…

— Diana Gabaldon