{"quotes":[{"text":"If you want to see how far we have not come from the cave and the woods, from the lonely and dangerous days of the prarie or the plain, witness the reaction of a modern suburban family, nearly ready for bed, when the doorbell rings or the door is rattled. They will stop where they stand, or sit bolt upright in their beds, as if a streak of pure lightning has passed through the house. Eyes wide, voices fearful, they will whisper to each other, 'There's someone at the door,' in a way that might make you believe they have always feared and anticipated this moment - that they have spent their lives being stalked.","author":"Alice McDermott","tags":["fear","suburbs"],"id":15959,"author_id":"Alice+McDermott"},{"text":"He'd been a fool, he saw that now. How could he have thought, even for a minute, that they'd be safe out here in the suburbs? The world was violent, rotten, corrupt, seething with hatred and perversion, and there was no escaping it. Everything you worked for, everything you loved, had to be locked up as if you were in a castle under siege.","author":"T.C. Boyle","tags":["fear","protection","safety","suburbs","violence"],"id":25352,"author_id":"T.C.+Boyle"},{"text":"They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing.","author":"Michael Davidow","tags":["politics","suburbs"],"id":47070,"author_id":"Michael+Davidow"},{"text":"Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation.","author":"Steven Millhauser","tags":["america","enclosure","futureshock","isolationism","suburbs","withdrawal"],"id":77683,"author_id":"Steven+Millhauser"},{"text":"It occurred to me that the quiet in the suburbs had nothing to do with peace.","author":"Melissa Bank","tags":["peace","suburbs"],"id":90003,"author_id":"Melissa+Bank"},{"text":"The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.","author":"Victoria Kahler","tags":["neighborhoods","night","shadows","suburbs","summer","summer-nights"],"id":108074,"author_id":"Victoria+Kahler"},{"text":"Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics is any longer capable of dealing with it. Medico-sociological banalities on the 'pathology of housing projects,' the emotional isolation of people who must live in them, or the development of certain extreme reactions of rejection, chiefly among youth, simply betray the fact that modern capitalism, the bureaucratic society of consumption, is here and there beginning to shape its own setting. This society, with its new towns, is building the terrain that accurately represents it, combining the conditions most suitable for its proper functioning, while at the same time translating in space, in the clear language of organization of everyday life, its fundamental principle of alienation and constraint. It is likewise here that the new aspects of its crisis will be manifested with the greatest clarity.","author":"Tom McDonough","tags":["153","alienation","capitalism","city","situationist","suburbs","urban-planning"],"id":190749,"author_id":"Tom+McDonough"},{"text":"Years from now, I will pass this same park, and I won’t remember any of this.Instead, I will feel something like a spark— a heat like Augustin a suburban town,and a desire to groweven when I know I’ll be cut down.","author":"Kris Kidd","tags":["adolescencescence","suburbs","youth"],"id":244113,"author_id":"Kris+Kidd"},{"text":"I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.","author":"Wilkie Collins","tags":["book","chambers","city","dreaming","night","reading","rouse","suburbs"],"id":253548,"author_id":"Wilkie+Collins"},{"text":"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["chicago","city","countryside","migraine","suburbs"],"id":258597,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}