Beijing Quote by Sylvia Vetta

“It was a weird mélange of alien architectures, as if these were buildings snatched at random from all times and places and reassembled in…

— Paul Magrs

“A figure moved, painfully flexing stiff, aching shoulder blades, and looked back towards the control tower. There was a different atmosphere about the place…

— Joy Ellis

“Everything imaginable had been done or tried out there. It wasn't the feeling you had looking out on his own land. In Australia, you…

— Tim Winton

“And sometimes a dust storm would stand off in the desert, towering so high it was like another city -- a terrifying new era…

— Denis Johnson

“I thought I was looking at a building at first: that it was some kind of tent, as high as a country church, made…

— Neil Gaiman

“for years, maybe for my whole life, it felt as though there was a brick wall down the middle of everything. Standing outside those…

— Liz Murray

“We stared at the house for a while. The weird thing about houses is that they almost look like nothing is happening inside of…

— John Green

“Once, I went to the roof of a project and saw a hawk perched on the rail; always, you see the city in the…

— Edward Conlon

“The dust that fell unnoted as a dew, Wrapped the dead city's face like mummy-cloth”

— Wilfred Owen

“I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except the pollen of the weeds that grow up inside the…

— Margaret Atwood

“Everywhere were metastasizing telephone lines, riots of electric wires, laundry hanging from prefabricated apartment windows like tears from idiot eyes.”

— Barry Eisler

“I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except the pollen of the weeds that grow up outside the…

— Margaret Atwood