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“1. Trust the Grave Stones (because your life depends on it) 2. Only get involved in highly risky world-saving business if absolutely necessary and there are grown-ups in charge 3. Get home ASAP”

Book:Rumblestar

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“Structural truth at all costs war their motto and all buildings which attempted to conceal the true nature of their construction, or to disguise the materials in which they were carried out, stood convicted of acting a lie. That a high proportion of the buildings which many generations of man-kind had agreed to regard as masterpieces failed to reach this exalted standard was held to be quite irrelevant. Unfortunately the new theory did not in practice prove quite so easy to carry out satisfactorily as hoped. Simplicity is not invariably and on every occasion a virtue, and while desperate attempts to lend some transient interest to a hopelessly uninspired structure by a top-dressing of cornice and pilasters are doubtless reprehensible, the bright, unvarnished truth tends too often to be even more depressing. After all few of us, by and large, look our best in the nude.”

Architecture Skyscrapers Brutalism

Book:Here, of All Places

Source: Here, of All Places

“I'd like the whole world to be built on these terms, but for now, let's cherish the Barbican and what it means.”

Design London Architecture Planning Futuristic Ideal World City Of London Communal Life Brutalism Idealisme

Book:Barbican Residents: Inside the Iconic Brutalist Estate

Source: Barbican Residents: Inside the Iconic Brutalist Estate

“And I suppose you’re going to sit beside me every single class?” “I don’t know. You seem like an angry student. I’m not sure I want the prof associating me with you.”

Livie One Tiny Lie Aston

Author:K A Tucker

“It doesn’t even—” one word “hurt ” was supposed to come out of my mouth. Instead, a string of obscenities to make a lifelong sailor proud shoot out. “What thefuck are you doing? Shit! You don’t pour it on like that, you fucking jackhole! Fuck!” I’m seething in pain, the sting agonizing. Ashton isn’t paying any heed, turning my hand this way and that to examine it closer. “Looks clean.” “Yeah, because you just bleached the shit out of it!” “Relax. It’ll stop stinging soon. Distract yourself by staring at me while we wait for this to settle down. That’s how you got yourself into this mess to begin with . . .”

Irish Livie Ashton Henley

Author:K A Tucker

“I think they liked you more than they like me. Eric said that I must get really angry when I’m Irish if you don’t want to be my boyfriend.” A deep, throaty laugh escapes Ashton’s lips and my body instantly warms. “What’d you say?” “Oh, I assured him that I get plenty mad even when I’m not ‘Irish’ and you’re around.” at earns another laugh. “I love it when you don’t censor yourself. When you just say what’s on your mind and don’t worry about it.” “Then you and Stayner would get along well . . .”

Livie Ashton Henley

Author:K A Tucker

“What were you thinking?” “Not much, clearly.”I hear the exasperation in Kacey’s voice. “I don’t know about you, Livie . . . Sometimes you’re as graceful as a one-legged flamingo in a pit of quicksand.”

Livie Kacey Cleary

Author:K A Tucker

“I grit my teeth. Despite everything, I mutter with a smile, “No.” “No, what?” “No, I’m glad you came.” “I haven’t . . .yet.”I slap my book across his arm, blushing furiously. “You’re impossible.” “And you’re incredible.”

Livie Ashton Henley

Author:K A Tucker

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