Business Quote by Susan Gloss

“We lived in the Portland Avenue Stacks, a sprawling hive of discolored tin shoeboxes rusting on the shores of I-40, just west of Oklahoma…

— Ernest Cline

“I arrive at the Gray Holdings headquarters in downtown Seattle two hours later. The building is a ginormous 175-story office building that juts into…

— Andrew Shaffer

“I see it for what is is, now. It is a house built on ashes. Ashes of the life Granddad shared with Gran, ashes…

— E. Lockhart

“Raj chose the table in the back corner of The Daily Grind. The Grind wasn’t your typical dark-paneled, cozy coffee house. The outer walls…

— Nikki Jefford

I have an affinity for the old Seattle coffee shops, places like the Green Onion and the Copper Kettle, the classic kind of coffee…

— Tom Douglas

“a tidy Folk Victorian, two stories, bright blue, and dotted with windows. A picket fence framed a postage-stamp yard, within which a black dirt…

— Marcus Sakey

“Ruins. Places built up by man, painstaking, sometimes over centuries. Layer upon layer of human experience, history, and art, represented in stone and wood…

— wildbow

“We exit the building and cross the street. I have to jog to keep up with him. Across from Erudite headquarters is what used…

— Veronica Roth

“Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak. Bide and…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“bearing the old Pewter Coffee-Machine venting its Puffs of Vapor,”

— Thomas Pynchon

“restaurants and bars opened along Garibaldi Avenue. More than a dozen factories sprang up making blouses for the garment trade. Neighboring Bangor”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“They spotted another ruin in the late afternoon, this one just a huge, partial circle of metal standing on its side, mounted in a…

— Martha Wells