Quote by Robert B. Parker

“The seedy single-room-occupancy hotels and low-rent apartment buildings in that neighborhood were like vending machines filled with victims.”

— Christa Faust

“neighborhood, the place I left each”

— Christina Baker Kline

“...the townhouses looked bedraggled, unkempt, like an old homeless woman with an interesting history but a perilous future.”

— Sharon Shinn

“One weekend in the vacation, I was invited to meet her family. They lived in Kent, out on the Orpington line, in one of…

— Julian Barnes

“They were delivered to mansions remodeled into country clubs, boarding schools, retreats for the insane, alcohol cures, health farms, wildlife sanctuaries, wallpaper factories, drafting…

— John Cheever

“Nevertheless, I drove right past my landmark, an antique store which looked to me like an ordinary house with junk piled on the front…

— Abraham Verghese

“Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, swelling here, shrinking there, like some low…

— Noah Lukeman

“we rolled into a small hole of a town that had one traffic light and a restaurant simply marked DINER. There hadn't been any…

— Richelle Mead

“I used to live in a seedy section of town. There were a lot of farmers in the area.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Gentrification had stopped dead several doors west of my spot overlooking Avenue B. You could actually see the line. That side of the line;…

— Warren Ellis

“The curious culture of the modern suburb will believe anything it is told in the papers about the wickedness of the Pope, or the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Rosewood Plantation off Byhalia Road. I was a pre-teenager when this happened.”

— Nina Lautner