Basements Quote by Vernor Vinge

“Not to alarm you or anything, but I think you just made a deal with a Mexican gang." I've read Simone Elkeles books. I…

— Tammy Blackwell

“I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house, as if…

— Ross Macdonald

“...but most houses in California were built without roots, leaving us trapped above ground with the light.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“Growing up, my bedroom was like a garage, only much smaller and with more lawnmowers in it (we had to store them there because…

— Jarod Kintz

“Suddenly, we had our own Joads--ill clothed and beleaguered, trudging along the alleyways past the oil drum fires, past the shanties and flophouses, under…

— Amor Towles

“The best find hadn’t been in the bunker, though. The garage had a half-dozen unused but well-maintained bicycles, complete with saddlebags. Even”

— James S.A. Corey

“they’d built in the backyard”

— Brooke Moss

“of my tidy one-bedroom apartment in downtown Los Angeles.”

— Octavia Wildwood

“is a well-known builder and inventor from another village. Immediately when I met him, he asked me for a workshop of 20x20 blocks. He…

— Steve the Noob

“You think you've reached the bottom. Then you find out the bottom has a basement.”

— Leonard Pitts Jr

“Those Walmarts weren't buildings, they were bunkers. Those weren't parking lots out front, they were kill zones.”

— Gard Skinner

“...the Sierra Nevada claimed me, aching knees and pumping heart, as one of it's own. Here, like nowhere else, I'm home.”

— Chris Robertson