Losing people Quote by Mick Herron

“At the time there was a strong feeling in the streets that the authorities were to blame for their incapacity to dispose of the…

— H.G. Wells

“The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors—and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them; and the bad neighborhood to be avoided is…

— Henry David Thoreau

“when I was the proud owner of eight houses. I had become addicted to finding broken-down, slummy houses in London and making structural alterations,…

— Agatha Christie

“Shame on those who remain unmoved, whose pace fails to quicken, on entering one of these old habitations, a manor-house falling to wrack and…

— Petrus Borel

“I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.”

— Frank Herbert

“Owning a hundred slum properties wasn’t a crime, although living in one was, almost. Being”

— Terry Pratchett

“No house is born bad. Most are thought of fondly, even lovingly. In the beginning, the house on Kill Creek was no exception.”

— Scott Thomas

“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the…

— Seneca

“But the well-intended idea had gone very bad. Filling a place with people who had no hope and knew they were about to descend…

— James Dashner

“There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.”

— Robert Aickman