But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.

The girls took into their own hands decisions better left to God. They became too powerful to live among us, too self-concerned, too visionary, too blind.

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.