Apartment Life Quotes

“On summer nights when the windows are open, you can listen in on people's lives—babies crying, kids laughing, radios blaring, mothers yelling, couples fighting. Funny thing is, the sounds are always the same. Even though different people come and go, the sounds stay the same. I like that. It makes me feel a part of something big, something never ending, like the stars.”
― Jackie French Koller, Nothing to Fear

“I looked over at the empty, black windows of the Whites' apartment, windows that were warm and yellow just yesterday, and I shivered.”
― Jackie French Koller, Nothing to Fear

“There were no sounds tonight. Only the whistle of the wind coming through the alleys. There's something lonely about October with the summer sounds all gone and the cold winter ahead.”
― Jackie French Koller, Nothing to Fear

“Funny thing is, the sounds are always the same. Even though different people come and go, the sounds stay the same.”
― Jackie French Koller, Nothing to Fear

“I looked at the other squares of yellow that climbed like ladders up the sides of the building. I thought about the people inside, those who are still there. Then I thought about all those who were gone and the others who have come to take their places.”
― Jackie French Koller, Nothing to Fear