Painted Cities Quotes

“places we had researched in our school’s only set of encyclopedias,”
― Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Painted Cities

“And then beyond them, farther north, were the whites, in a dreamland accessible only by the Chicago L, and even at that a place you glimpsed momentarily—redbrick houses, wrought-iron fences, tree-lined streets—then left, swallowed by the subway if you were on the Douglas-Park B, or forced to watch it all fade from view if you rode the elevated Ravenswood A.”
― Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Painted Cities