#urban

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Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.


Sara Paretsky


#along #astonishing #blended #breathtaking #chicago

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.


Robin Gibb


#inspiration #looking #now #scene #urban

I'm not an urban person.


David Guterson


#person #urban

Kevin looks at me and I know he isn’t seeing the little girl I use to be, all pigtails and gangly limbs. He isn’t seeing my mother’s daughter or even my mother anymore. As his eyes linger over me, stopping here and there in the most uncomfortable places, I know he isn’t really even seeing me as I am. The bloodshot eyes staring out of the alcohol-flushed face are seeing a girl, nearly of age, who owes him a tremendous debt of gratitude.--Rocky Evans


Gwenn Wright


#historical-fiction #love #romance #romantic-suspense #teens

What I knew for sure was that he had a quick temper, a cocky attitude, and a southern accent... Apparently he also has a pet cougar.


Stacy Mantle


#heroes #humor #urban-fantasy #attitude

What I struggle with is that every thing excites me, cities, supermarkets, roads, dirt, rubbish, car parks, advertising, people, deforestation, excavation, fires, floods and violence. All of these things can be beautiful, yet I see the damage; the pain the obscenity of everything. When I am in the city, I long for the country the open space around me, yet in the city I enjoy all that goes on around me.


Teo Ormond-Skeaping


#city #nature #pollution #urban #beauty

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.


Anatole Broyard


#disturbed #greater #having #misunderstanding #misunderstood

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.


Bob Filner


#areas #been #big #california #case

More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.


Ashley Judd


#i #me #more #often #people

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.


Jonathan Kozol


#any #attracting #best-educated #exciting #factor