#urban

The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#music

Oh that voice, so sweet. Rich, like the taste of vanilla ice cream, vowels like flute music, warm caramel consonants. She could float in that voice forever and not miss a thing. ↗

— Suki Michelle

#urban-fantasy #ya #music

Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#city-planning #urban #urban-planning #death

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#traffic #urban-planning #death

You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#necromancer #urban-fantasy #young-adult #children

Eve is married to my credit card, not me ↗

— Poppet

#paranormal-urban-fantasy-romance #urban-fantasy

So in the sweltering heat of a July night, I sang a Christmas carol to a room full of fae, who had been driven out of their homelands by Christians and their cold-iron swords. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#urban-fantasy #christmas

The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#tragedy #urban-legend #urban-legends #dreams

Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I’ve checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that? ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#humour #urban-fantasy #dreams

Pete squeezed Jack's hand, hard as she could. "You're not alone," she told him. "If you've made up your mind to die, then I'll be with you here, until the end. I'd follow you into death if that's what you asked, Jack. Heaven, Hell. Anywhere at all. ↗

— Caitlin Kittredge

#death