“Smelled like home. Stink permeates homelessness: the smell of trash, the smell of dirty streets, of fire bins and piss and other people's body odor, the wet dog smell that saturates your clothes and bedding, the smell of rust and dirt and decay.” PovertyEnvironmentDespairSurvivalDecayRealismHomelessnessUrban LifeStreet LifeSensory Experience Book:Where the Monsters Live Source: Where the Monsters Live
“Hope is the slowest poison.” HopeDespairMetaphorIronyContradictionCynicismIntrospectionDualityDisillusionmentPhilosophical Reflection Book:Dead Men Walking: a Novelette Source: Dead Men Walking: a Novelette