Cityscape Quotes

“Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter...No Women's Bathroom”
― Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira, Vol. 1

“The sun had just gone down, and its afterglow was backlighting the city, which formed low cliffs around the bucolic void to the idle stockyards. The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn’t get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city is capable of doing when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.


There was a broad river to reflect those lights, which would have made their nighttime winkings very pretty indeed. It was the Elbe.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I wait on the origin of night's sounds waking. I know
that here only the blind man sings, even in rain

The notes of drenched violins rise like warped mirrors'
and the last clouds part slowly, like a cracked wheel.”
― Jim Carroll, Fear of Dreaming: The Selected Poems

“The arctic pavement turned into a whirlwind of viscous blood. The fiery shadows on the metropolitan walls blitzed him, avenging overachievers starved for vengeance. He fell into the abyss. His migraine made his head feel heavier than it was. Thoughts of her were coals for the old train engine inside his head.”
― Bruce Crown, Chronic Passions

“From the rubble of their fallen predecessors, the mega-hotel/casinos rose up, towering higher and higher over either side of the boulevard - glittering amnesiacs with the memories of what had come before hidden deep within their foundations.”
― Buan Boonaca, Accumulation

“Jonduri at night was a red how of lanterns, a fume of spoiled drinks,a raucous, too-loud conversation over spicy food”
― F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen

“La ciudad, hija mía, es un infierno. Y en toda España no hay una ciudad que se parezca más al infierno que Barcelona…”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“But when I came to, I was in the city, walking. I was walking by the river as if I had always been there.
Alone.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne