A good friend loves you when the condition is better, a best friend holds your hand when you’re in gutter.
― Debasish Mridha

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. The alley behind my building is a treasure trove of interesting images, including this oil-slick rainbow. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
― Stephen King

Below is the original photo used to create this image. The alley behind my building is a treasure trove of of interesting images, if you like drains and gutters… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind…
― W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. At a rest area on a trip to visit my parents, I found this filmy puddle and couldn’t help taking a quick pic… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Top And The Ball

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this ditch on a sunrise walk around my neighborhood. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

My preferences range from the gutter-like to the idyllically sublime, ideally with you roaming the range beside me…
― Virginia Alison

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. The alley behind my building is a treasure trove of interesting images, including this oil-slick rainbow. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

He’d had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn’t handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter.
― John Grisham, The Testament

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. The alley behind my building is a treasure trove of of interesting images, if you like drains and gutters… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair.
― Kurt Vonnegut

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. At a rest area on a trip to visit my parents, I found this filmy puddle and couldn’t help taking a quick pic… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

What is there to say about love? You could sweep up all the words and stack them in the gutter and love wouldn’t be any different, wouldn’t feel any different, the hurt in the heart, the headachy desire that hardly submits to language. What we can’t tame we talk about.
― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. I found this ditch on a sunrise walk around my neighborhood. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

 

I couldn’t allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It’s strange. I had become so reconciled to this life without her, and yet if I thought about her only for a minute it was enough to pierce the bone and marrow of my contentment and shove me hack again into the agonizing gutter of my wretched past.
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

 

 

Below is the original photo used to create this image. The alley behind my building is a treasure trove of interesting images, including this oil-slick rainbow. No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.

I didn’t mind being a goof if only he loved me. I felt when we were together that I walked in the gutter and he on the sidewalk. All I did was keep looking up to see if there was love in his eyes.
― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

Below is the original photo used to create this image. The alley behind my building is a treasure trove of of interesting images, if you like drains and gutters… No special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.