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“But this home over here: it needed paint but had flowers neatly planted all the way around it. That one over there had a…

— Dan Baum

“This spot was so close to perfect we would not even want to tell ourselves how lucky we were, having been delivered to it.…

— Don DeLillo

“You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.”

— Liane Moriarty

“It was a lovely landscape. It was idyllic, poetical, and it inspired me. I felt good and noble. I felt I didn't want to…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“While I waited for Adley to answer, I took in our surroundings. The sky was a lovely shade of pink, there were scattered flowers…

— Nicole Sobon

“The view of the highway was so bad that you could not even see the next viaduct. Te moment it loomed out of the…

— Janet Fitch

“Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may.”

— Kevin Powers

“As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside, but thinking all the time - Now it was to be…

— Anthony Burgess

“I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw…

— Black Elk

“Soon after this incident the court rose. As I was being taken from the courthouse to the prison van, I was conscious for a…

— Albert Camus

“From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when he began…

— Osip Mandelstam

“Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely… It is simply the most ordinary place in the world…It was so shabby and makeshift…

— David Malouf