Town hall Quote by Markus Zusak

“I studied the dusty street, the plastic walls and dries patches of piss. And I guess it was being left with just shantytowns and…

— Chris Howard

“After denuding the trunk, the men left to denude others, and for a time the tree stood blighted, trying to raise its stunted arms,…

— Jeffery Eugenides

“The children from the bridge were often waiting there, eyeing me. They congregated by the stump and played a game involving motions as strange…

— China Miéville

“This was where they came when the warmth had seeped out of their bodies; this was the dark hall of the dead, where the…

— George R.R. Martin

“It became rather embarrassing after awhile. I’d step off the plane and there they’d be, all huddled together to meet me in their black…

— Anton Szandor LaVey

“...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“The dead lay in a row in the middle of the hall.”

— J.K. Rowling

“And afterward, in the small cabin, they'd do this, this tangle of bodies, this blurring of the edges that kept people distant and lonely.”

— Libba Bray

“The first two rooms were in the same state as the corridor. Dirty, and piled with junk. Dead typewriters, telephones, three-legged chairs. I was…

— Hugh Laurie

“They needed to take action, make haste, embalm the dead town, dress the wounds of the sculptures, heal the sick windows, give succour to…

— Georges Rodenbach

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“The exhibition gobsmacked me. I'm not ashamed to admit it. Here was quite a small building, not many people about, getting little attention. And…

— Jonathan Gash