#urban

So I flirt with disaster once or twice. Who doesn’t?” He snorted. “You don’t just flirt with disaster, you have intercourse with it. ↗

— Dannika Dark

#disaster #flirt #funny #humor #impulse

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#call #case #cloud #committed #different

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species. ↗

— David Suzuki

#continue #humans #landscapes #need #others

I'm finally a suburban housewife. Honestly, it's my dream come true. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#dream #finally #honestly #housewife #i

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#architecture #contribute #development #duty #feel

The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#another #beard #bin #channels #dad

That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard." Joanna ↗

— Vicki Pettersson

#dreams

from Out of the Darkness (book 2): Zoe met Eric's eyes. Even in her platforms she was still a few inches shorter than he was. "And what do you do?" His mouth quirked. "I set people on fire. ↗

— Jaime Rush

#paranormal-romance #pnr #pyro #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

I want to leave all my friends and the sunlight for a small, rainy town. ↗

— The Harvard Lampoon

#nightlight #paranormal-romance #twilight-parody #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

His witch had finally arrived. He knew it within his heart and he danced, giddy as a schoolboy on the first day of summer vacation. ↗

— Sapphire Phelan

#erotic #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy